On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 08:48 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 10:03:55AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] > > - "they use the buffer cache". > > > > Waah, waah, waah. > > .... you dismiss those concerns in the same way a 6 year old school > yard bully taunts his suffering victims. > > Regardless of the merits of the observation you've made, the tone > and content of this response is *completely unacceptable*. Please > keep to technical arguments, Linus, because this sort of response > has no merit what-so-ever. All it does is shut down the technical > discussion because no-one wants to be the target of this sort of > ugly abuse just for participating in a technical discussion. > > Given the number of top level maintainers that signed off on the CoC > that are present in this forum, I had an expectation that this is a > forum where bad behaviour is not tolerated at all. So I've waited a > couple of days to see if anyone in a project leadership position is > going to say something about this comment..... > > <silence> > > The deafening silence of tacit acceptance is far more damning than > the high pitched squeal of Linus's childish taunts. Well, let's face it: it's a pretty low level taunt and it wasn't aimed at you (or indeed anyone on the thread that I could find) and it was backed by technical argument in the next sentence. We all have a tendency to let off steam about stuff in general not at people in particular as you did here: https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/ZP+vcgAOyfqWPcXT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ But I didn't take it as anything more than a rant about AI in general and syzbot in particular and certainly I didn't assume it was aimed at me or anyone else. If everyone reached for the code of conduct when someone had a non- specific rant using colourful phraseology, we'd be knee deep in complaints, which is why we tend to be more circumspect when it happens. James
