From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:11:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:11:06 -0400 Received: from samba.sourceforge.net ([198.186.203.85]:44562 "HELO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:10:58 -0400 From: Paul Mackerras MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15164.6716.301922.3947@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:03:40 +1000 (EST) To: Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.7.2 Reply-To: paulus@samba.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > There's another side to "drumming your own drum": it is often seen as > actively offensive to some people who don't want to do the same thing. I agree. What usually seems to end up happening is that someone writes 95% and gets no credit, someone else does 5% and puts in a printk announcing their contribution loudly every time the system boots. I recall that the old PPP driver used to print "PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc." which always annoyed me because it was a completely trivial piece of code that the notice was referring to. Paul.