Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c

Shawn Leas (sleas@ixion.honeywell.com)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:25:16 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > >
> > > Yet I had to resubmit the patch and the explanation at least
> > > *THREE* times, over the course of 2-3 weeks, before I finally got a
> > > response out of you. And this was for a utterly uncontroversial patch!
> >
> > Note that if some person cannot be bothered to re-submit, I don't WANT the
> > patch. Anybody who is not willing to take that much care of his patches
> > that he can't maintain it while I haven't accepted it, I don't want to
> > accept patches from anyway.
>
> Linus, the problem is that when I submit a patch, I don't want to
> unneccesarily overload you by resubmitting on too short a notice.
>
> So I wait, and wait. Nothing happens.
>
> If you publish a Linus-manual and tell us after what time we should
> resubmit, things should be a lot more workable.

If we get Linus using procmail I think we can solve at least
a little of the dilema... ;]

-Shawn
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