From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762307AbYDZTmw (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:42:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762200AbYDZTml (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:42:41 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:41468 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762197AbYDZTmk (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:42:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:42:15 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Harvey Harrison Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit Message-ID: <20080426194215.GS2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1209190455.14173.13.camel@brick> <20080426110044.GB2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <1209237655.14173.29.camel@brick> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1209237655.14173.29.camel@brick> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:20:55PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote: > On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:00 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > [BUILDFIX PATCH] au0828: debug is a poor global identifier > > > > Another issue for which I already sent a (slightly different) patch. > > > > Why not check the mailing list before duplicating work? [1] > > I do generally try to check the mailing list to avoid this...but LKML > tends to be pretty busy. I also try to check the latest -git devel > tree for the affected area in case it's waiting to be pulled. In this > case it was so trivial I sent it directly to Linus. > > In fact, I concentrate on looking at the sparse output because you > do such a good job of catching unnecessary exports/globals. >... Sorry that my mail was unfriendly, but unfriendly flames are unfortunately sometimes the only choice for getting any response on linux-kernel (and now I've gotten the responses my friendly mail to Linus did not yield). > Cheers, > > Harvey cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed