linux-kernel - Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter who's code gets merged!

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:22:57 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>,
	'Carlo Florendo' <subscribermail@...il.com>,
	'Roman Zippel' <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	'jos poortvliet' <jos@...nkamer.nl>,
	'Michael Chang' <thenewme91@...il.com>,
	'Kasper Sandberg' <lkml@...anurb.dk>,
	'Linux Kernel Mailing List' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter who's code gets merged!

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:05:01AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I've had several cases myself where I spent quite some time solving a
> problem, just to get some random remark from someone smart on lkml
> saying "if you had done <this simple thing> you would have had <this
> simple and superior solution>". Was I pissed off that my patch didn't
> get merged but that this better approach got picked? NO! The problem
> that I needed to solve got solved in a really good way. Mission
> accomplished.

Hey to me it even happened I had this nice and safe pte-highmem patch
but the buggy highpte was merged instead, go figure. Con got lucky.
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