From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423494AbXD3SVK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:21:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423401AbXD3SVK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:21:10 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:40312 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423507AbXD3SVH (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:21:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:20:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Adrian Bunk cc: Diego Calleja , Andi Kleen , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 In-Reply-To: <20070430180952.GC23336@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20070429173500.GA30248@one.firstfloor.org> <20070429180909.GA30604@one.firstfloor.org> <20070429214007.9ea12e96.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070429201729.GQ3468@stusta.de> <20070429210505.GS3468@stusta.de> <20070430180952.GC23336@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > My ideal was always that reported bugs should be fixed. ..and this is where we differ. OF COURSE bugs should be fixed. But you seem to think that there is something magical and special about every single bug-report. You have a new home assignment: watch the "every sperm is sacred" thing from Monty Python's "Meaning of Life". Google for it. And if you cannot appreciate the absurdity and humor of that thing, maybe you should think about it a bit more. And once you _can_ appreciate the humor of that song/skit, look yourself in the mirror, and ask yourself: "is every bug report sacred?" Really? > If you accept that this is anyway impossible because more bugs get added > than could get fixed you might not need any tracking at all. That's a TOTALLY IDIOTIC argument. That goes from "every sperm is sacred" to "sperm doesn't count at all". Can you not see how stupid that statement of yours really is? Can you not see that anybody who thinks in those kinds of black-and-white terms is simply not FUNCTIONAL! Bugs are neither sacred, _nor_ should they be ignored. Ponder that, grasshopper. And until you can see that things are not "either-or", "black-and-white", "all or nothing", I don't think I really can have anything worthwhile to add in this discussion to you. People who think in absolutes are simply not worth talking to. Linus