Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 17:24:02 EST


Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> Note who the email is addressed to. I have tried many different techniques
> for communicating with this gentleman, including self-deprecation, and they
> all seem to have the same result: no patch applied, long wait, eventually
> some other patch a long time later will obsolete my patch in some way, and
> the whole thing drifts off into forgotten history. Err, almost forgotten,
> because the bad taste remains.
>
> And yes, there was a successor to the patch in which I did the job 'properly'
> by cleaning up some other infrastructure instead of just fixing the bug
> locally. There was also a long lag after I created and submitted that
> version before the bug was actually fixed, and then it was only fixed in 2.4.
>

When all this ext2 fuss was going on, I went into ext3, changed
a few lines, fixed the bug and typed `cvs commit'.

I just thought you might enjoy hearing that.

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