linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

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Message-ID: <51E97029.9090500@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:58:17 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

On 07/18/2013 11:03 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>
>> Ie. It's a *very good* barrier against maintainers sliding into
>> sloppyness. Really, it works. At least with me.
>>
>> It's easy to take things a bit too much for granted, especially when you
>> maintain your own little corner of the world.
> 
> Agreed!  Though I must confess that I have shifted from being mostly
> worried about people yelling at me to being mostly worried about my own
> code yelling at me.  Either way, I do find that being worried about some
> consequence or another does help me get a better result.
> 

Yes.  Linus' little rant from last weekend has had me and the other tip
maintainers look at process changes and new tooling, which we probably
should have done a while ago... but it just got way too buried on the
list of priorities.

	-hpa


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