On 2015-07-03 12:49 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 11:03:11AM -0400, nick wrote: >> >> The reason I am doing this is Ted is trying to find a bug that I >> fixed in order to prove to Greg Kroah Hartman I have >> changed. Otherwise I would be pushing this through the drm >> maintainer(s). > > I am trying to determine if you have changed. Your comment justifying > your lack of testing because "it's hard to test" is ample evidence > that you have *not* changed. > > Simply coming up with a commit that happens to be correct is a > necessary, but not sufficient condition. Especially when you feel > that you need to send dozens of low-value patches and hope that one of > them is correct, and then use that as "proof". It's the attitude > which is problem, not whether or not you can manage to come up with a > correct patch. > > I've described to you what you need to do in order to demonstrate that > you have the attitude and inclinations in order to be a kernel > developer that a maintainer can trust as being capable of authoring a > patch that doesn't create more problems than whatever benefits it > might have. I respectfully ask that you try to work on that, and stop > bothering me (and everyone else). > > Best regards, > > - Ted > Ted, I agree with you 100 percent. The reason I can't test this is I don't have the hardware otherwise I would have tested it by now. Nick -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>