linux-kernel - Re: First kernel patch (optimization)

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Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 2015 07:20:35 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: First kernel patch (optimization)

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 03:54:20AM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote:
> And many maintainers of open source projects that I know off, are not
> very welcome to cleanup patches, especially when the project is
> mature. They just call it churn and turn it down.

Then those are not very mature developers as code cruft always needs to
be culled and cleaned on an active project, otherwise it gets harder to
work with over time, as others have already pointed out on this thread.

thanks,

greg k-h
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