Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Thermal management updates for v5.4-rc1 | From | Doug Ledford <> | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:57:28 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2019-09-27 at 21:52 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:30 PM Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> > wrote: > > Because there are literally thousands of developers working on > > kernel > > bits here and there, and you're swatting this particular fly one > > developer at a time. > > I strongly disagree. One of the golden rules of kernel development is, > read what Linus writes. Especially during the merge window. > > Thanks, > //richard
Developers come and go. Your argument is temporally flawed. A developer might start working on the tree, read everything during a merge window, and not catch one of Linus' rebase rants prior to committing a rebase felony of their own.
Besides, I don't think this rule of yours is all that universal. If Linus is off on a thread about arm64 device tree brokenness and someone does a rebase and he rants about it, I'm very likely to miss that rant. I read what I reasonably deem to be relevant to me and my work, or sometimes additional stuff that just jumps out at me. But I never learned to speed read so I don't even try to read it all and wouldn't agree to a rule that says I have to.
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