On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 23:34 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 13:14 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > > Surely there is an enormous difference between being required to defend your > > position against rational and forceful argument, and being required to defend > > it against irrelevant name calling. > > Sure, but I don't think there's really much name calling in the kernel > community. > > I just scanned a large number of LKML emails, and they all seemed rather > technical, and no personal attacks at all. And that included several > emails from Linus as well. Probably the strongest email came from Thomas > Gleixner, but even that didn't contain any personal name calling. Mostly > he called stuff "crap" but that was about the code and claims that the > code did, but not about the person. > > There are a few times that Linus gets a bit colorful with his > criticisms, but that's really the minority of the email and not the > overall tone. I think Linus picks his battles. Sometimes he goes > overboard, but he's human. But I still think he's running this ship > well. > I just found this gem: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/10/600 But it's just Linus ranting about having "make install" modify the source tree (which I totally agree with him, as I've stumbled over crap like this in other projects). But he's bitching about the code, not the person who asked him to pull it. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html