Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/SendingPatches [2 of 2]. | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:18:10 -0400 |
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The bit about log rolling.
--- linux-new/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2003-06-11 15:54:29.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-new/Documentation/SubmittingPatches2 2003-06-11 15:54:06.000000000 -0400 @@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ complete, that is OK. Simply note "this patch depends on patch X" in your patch description. +In politics, there's a concept called "log rolling", where unrelated +amendments are bundled together so that changes people want grease the +way for changes they don't. Do not do this. It's annoying. + +In coding, this sort of thing can be very subtle, such as performance increases +that help your new version perform as well as the original while doing more +work, but which could also have been applied to the original making it even +faster. The linux-kernel guys are very good at taking the chocolate coating +and leaving the pill behind. This can be very frustrating to developers, but +it's one of the big reasons open source produces such excellent results. 4) Select e-mail destination. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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