Hi Tejun, On 03/01/2013 11:40 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Srivatsa. > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:49:53AM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> Don't get me wrong - I'll whole-heartedly acknowledge and appreciate if >> _your_ code is better than mine. I just don't like the idea of somebody >> plagiarizing my ideas/code (or even others' ideas for that matter). >> However, I sincerely apologize in advance if I misunderstood/misjudged your >> intentions; I just wanted to voice my concerns out loud at this point, >> considering the bad feeling I got by looking at your responses collectively. > > Although I don't know Lai personally, from my experience working with > him past several months on workqueue, I strongly doubt he has dark > urterior intenions. The biggest problem probably is that his > communication in English isn't very fluent yet and thus doesn't carry > the underlying intentions or tones very well and he tends to bombard > patches in quick succession without much explanation inbetween (during > 3.8 cycle, I was receiving several workqueue patchsets days apart > trying to solve the same problem with completely different approaches > way before the discussion on the previous postings reach any kind of > consensus). A lot of that also probably comes from communication > problems. > > Anyways, I really don't think he's trying to take claim of your work. > At least for now, you kinda need to speculate what he's trying to do > and then confirm that back to him, but once you get used to that part, > he's pretty nice to work with and I'm sure his communication will > improve in time (I think it has gotten a lot better than only some > months ago). > Thank you so much for helping clear the air, Tejun! I'm truly sorry again for having drawn the wrong conclusions based on gaps in our communication. It was a mistake on my part and I would like to request Lai to kindly forgive me. I'm looking forward to working with Lai effectively, going forward. Thank you! Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html