On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 20:58 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > (btw, your comment above comes off very snide, which I don't > > appreciate. I haven't done anything that remotely warrants that.) > > That snideness is simply a reflection, to make you realize how it feels. > I tried to point this issue out to you in the past, but here we go > again, back to square one. But i'm not giving up on you :-) I could say the same thing ".. here we go again .." > Peter sent a patch to a subtly buggy patch of yours (which introduces a > bug worse than it fixes), with this comment: I'm with you up to this point .. > | | How about this - compile tested only > > and you replied in this almost flagrant tone: > > | How about a comment to go with it ? Which says something like what's > | above, notes on how the locking is getting used.. " before I sent this I must have accidentally delete the "Ok." which originally proceeded the above. > that kind of tone can be offensive, in such a context. I _know_ you > (still) dont realize it as offensive and that you dont accept my > characterisation of it, but nevertheless it's a fact and i'm going to > complain about it to you when i see you do it. I do disagree with the way your accepting this .. I wouldn't say "It's a fact" either, since I don't accept similar comments from other people the way your accepting it .. English generally is pretty loose. I could say "That car is bad" which could literally mean the car is good or nice.. There is a whole cornucopia of things that need to be considered. > A proper polite answer to the helpful patch of Peter would have been > what i suggested: > > > > how about: "if you've got some time then please also add a few > > > comments, because the code was quite non-obvious to me and I > > > misunderstood it when I tried to fix it. Thanks." > > the basis of writing such replies is a certain level of humility and > fundamental respect towards the capabilities of other kernel developers. > Do you have it? If yes, are you willing to express it? If yes then > please do so. I didn't argue with Peter , which means I agree with what he said .. He was right, I was wrong and I accepted what he said in it's entirety .. Certainly there is a level of respect there.. Had I argued with him it would be different . I'm a minimalist .. I don't say more than I need to, and it's not about respect or superiority .. For example, I don't like saying "I think" or "My opinion is" since that's implicit in my comments. If I'm writing something clearly that's my opinion .. And a question mark alone represents "Do you have it? If yes, are you willing to express it? If yes then please do so" Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
