what did i say? what did i just say? i wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, nick wrote:
> On 14-09-17 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > and, as we've all seen, nick's other flaw is that, quite simply,
> > he's selfish and greedy. his entire obsession is with the output
> > of checkpatch, which means he wants to grab all the trivial
> > cleanup (the low-hanging fruit, as it were) for himself, and not
> > leave any for others. rather than take the time to understand the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > code, nick wants checkpatch to do all the work for him. in the
> > end, nick doesn't want to do any work or understand how the kernel
> > actually works -- he just wants patches, and he wants them as
> > quickly and cheaply as possible.
to which nick responds (unbelievably, and confirming what i had
just written):
> That's not what I wanted I was trying to improve my rep after
> getting banned from vger.org and now it seems I can't even get a
> patch right. In addition I was trying to do check patch because it
> was easier for me due to not understanding some parts of the code.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
i rarely have my speculation confirmed so rapidly and completely.
rday
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