From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760846AbYD3NSe (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:18:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756103AbYD3NS0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:18:26 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:40948 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754256AbYD3NSZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:18:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Pl3z6jqTESqEjVbb1DrkV78bv/haT3VF2lM2B26W4MO81Z0TwyJb1TLP1NLKxFp2EzngI22eLF2v6DfpgYH4wuWu7R4U/DkbSZpwCbKHjCnOQlp/Q9T0C/iEafFtp/wjZ1Z9Dv7P/R5V4c+Sues+YKxUARpLoZpuW5U92SV/jew= Message-ID: <517f3f820804300618v5ae41a46q881be5247469b591@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:18:20 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: "David Newall" Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! Cc: "David Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <48186E57.5070805@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <4817EF91.4080800@davidnewall.com> <20080429.211835.130816277.davem@davemloft.net> <48186E57.5070805@davidnewall.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: f109e63ea164abe3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Take, as an example, the desire to NOT > record who gives good code and who gives bugs: that one clearly hit a > nerve, which it should not have except from people who feel guilty. Speaking as someone who has found quite a few kernel bugs, but written few (because I've written little kernel code ;-))... No. It hit a nerve because it's the simply wrong way of going about things. There is no use in assigning blame. Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html