On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:30:59 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
| On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:
|
| > > [rpjday@mindspring.com]
| > >
| > > 1) i mentioned this before, i think, but after one deselects
| > > Power management, should ACPI Support and CPU Frequency
| > > scaling still be available?
| > >
| > > the "make xconfig" menu display suggests a submenu
| > > structure there, which clearly isn't the case.
| >
| > Why don't you go ahead and send a patch?
Ditto. the right response.
| i'd be happy to, but based on my previous experience sending
| in a few patches, it's just not worth the aggravation any more.
|
| just one of my patches that got adopted took, literally, several
| weeks of being dropped on the floor with no reason why. and i
| had to resubmit it, slightly updated, for every BK rev of the
| kernel since the previous patch wouldn't apply cleanly --
| it might be a line or two off, which would require remaking
| the patch and resubmitting it *again*. at which point, it
| would be dropped on the floor *again*.
|
| don't get me wrong -- i understand that there has to be some
| form of QA in accepting kernel patches, and after a while,
| regular submitters can build up a reputation.
and the QA is on patches, not (so much) on dialog.
| but, at this point, it's not terribly useful to encourage people
| to submit patches if those patches are just tossed.
|
| it's like the classic catch-22:
|
| "we can't hire you. you don't have enough experience doing
| this job."
| "ok, so how do i get experience?"
| "well, you have to do this job for a while."
|
| uh, right. so, while there's not much point in my submitting
| patches, i can still toss suggestions from the sidelines, unless
| you have some ideas. i'm certainly open to advice.
But suggestions from the sidelines are just too close to whinging
(Brit. spelling :) and moaning. Not very helpful.
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