Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

[Adrian Bunk]

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

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