Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:25:35 +0100 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: The direction linux is taking |
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Russell King wrote: > > > I envy Alan, Linus, and Marcelo for having the ability to silently > > drop patches and wait for resends. > > I'm not going to resend more than twice. If after that > a critical bugfix isn't applied, I'll put it in our > kernel RPM and the rest of the world has tough luck.
There is a difference between critical bugfixes and patches that don't do the Right Thing [tm]. I've never seen Russell dropping the former.
Erik
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