On 14-09-17 08:00 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Greg Freemyer wrote: > >> >> >> On September 17, 2014 7:20:42 AM EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> <snip> >>> >>> 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. >> >> Nick and his patches may have plenty of flaws, but I think it is a >> bit crazy to call his effort to get his first patch into the kernel >> greedy. > > i was actually referring to nick's more recent posting where he > vowed to use his patch as the template to start cleaning up all of > drivers/staging/. i thought i was fairly clear that there is nothing > wrong with *starting* with stylistic cleanup, but nick made it quite > clear he planned on doing this all over drivers/staging. *that* is > what i was referring to. > > rday > Rday, Your reading that wrong what I mean is to use the format as a template for patches I am going to send out, not clean up drivers/staging all of it a least. I was stating I wanted to only clean up a bit there in order to get comfortable with sending out patches. Sorry about the miswritten message, Nick _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
