Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 09:08 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:39:19AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:21:19AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> > > Bringing the patch to a public mailing list is a waste of time until >> > > there's a reliable description of the problem you're trying to solve. >> > >> > Please see the original patch. It does describes what it is doing. >> >> "What", but not "Why". Which is only acceptable in GNU changelogs ;-) > > Please understand the "Why" is a sticky subject that we can't and won't > discuss in a public forum. However, we believe the maintainers > understand the "Why" of it well enough to consider whether or not to > include such a patch. The "What" should be pretty clear from the patch > description. The "How" is a technical question that can be discussed > here. If the "Why" can not be discussed then you don't have a "Why" you can stand behind. If you don't have a "Why" you can stand behind the "Why" sucks and does not appear to be an appropriate justification for a patch applied to a public piece of code. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
