Re: [PATCH] x86: boot: Fix mixed indentation in a20.c

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:18:07AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If a newbie does a meaningful, complete, well done cleanup patch then
> congratulations and any such help is welcome.
>
> If you as a more experienced kernel developer do a cleanup as part of
> some real work then sure, all such cleanups are welcome and they are a
> natural part of development work.
>
> So a standalone cleanup patch to a20.c from _you_ would probably not
> qualify, almost by definition: your first patch was applied 7 years
> ago, you are by far not a newbie anymore, yet you seem to be mostly
> stuck on the 'cleanups and trivialities' level! Sheesh!
>
> My message to the buerocrat Joe Perches is: please leave trivial and
> printk patches to newbies, you need to raise to the next level of
> kernel development already.
>
> FYI, Linux is a meritocracy, not a bureaucracy: creating self-serving
> churn and attention-seeking but unimportant patches is not the way to
> gain kernel development credibility long term, and eventually people
> start protecting against your increasing abuse of the development
> process. IMHO.

... and not only that - sending patches to the kernel shouldn't be about
the *sending* of patches itself but actually about doing some real
improvement to it.

Thanks Ingo for hitting the nail on the head!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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