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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:18:20 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	"David Newall" <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

> Take, as an example, the desire to NOT
>  record who gives good code and who gives bugs: that one clearly hit a
>  nerve, which it should not have except from people who feel guilty.

Speaking as someone who has found quite a few kernel bugs, but written
few (because I've written little kernel code ;-))...

No.  It hit a nerve because it's the simply wrong way of going about
things.  There is no use in assigning blame.

Michael

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