Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8]

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 01:27:56 EST


On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:33:28PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:05:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * J.A. Magallón <jamagallon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > heh. Could you send a patch with a changelog please?
> > >
> > > Here it goes...I hope its right.
> >
> > applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks!
>
> Ingo, why did you require a patch? Was not it really more simple and
> easy for everyone to write it yourself? Since I am sure it was not only
> a laziness matter (really?), I am very curious to know the reason.

I see two things :
- preserve authorship of the code
- "laziness" as you call it, is the only way to scale for a maintainer.

Willy

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