Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:20:58 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > So if someone you trusted actually started batching up small fixes and > sending you things like > > "37 random documentation updates - no code changed", "11 patches to fix > kmalloc checks", "maintainers updates to 6 network drivers" > > that would work sanely ?
Yes. That would take a whole lot of load off me - load I currently handle by just not sweating the small stuff, and concentrating on the things I think are important.
> The other related question is device driver implementation stuff (not interfaces > and abstractions). You don't seem to check that much anyway, or have any taste > in device drivers 8) so should that be part of the small fixing job ?
I think it has some of the same issues, but I really would prefer to have it in a separate batch.
Quite frankly, this is a large part of what you did..
Linus
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