On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 05:50:50PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > 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. It's the kind of response that intimidates some into not participating. Thanks- Bill > > James > >
