On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 08:59 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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. That's for the maintainers to decide. If they agree it has worth, maybe it's a good idea to answer "How". > 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. You're entitled to your opinion. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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
