And for real technicolor stuff, hunt for the kernelnewbies fortunes
file; selected quotes from lkml:
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"I want you guys to look at your computer screen, imagining the worst
monster you can (the cacodeamon from Quake will do, just make him hairier
and bigger and more MEAN), and think of me. Think of me like I am when I
see a patch which isn't a pure bug-fix.
If you're whimpering just _thinking_ about sending me a new feature,
you're in the right mindframe. Keep that mindframe."
- Linus Torvalds
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What a freaking tyrant! :-O How the heck did
$any_feature_you_care_to_name survive development?!? This from the
guy who was once wondering why his newborn might need a tcp/ip stack?
Hey,
Tyrant maybe, but I can see his point. I'm sure he'd have been more aminable to you sending in two patches, one for the bugfix and another for a feature. That way he can apply the bugfix and then, if he feels like it, look at the feature. It's similar to the bad form of refactoring and changing functionality in the same patch.
cheers,
Owen.
[just kidding, L.]
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