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Message-ID: <CAPDOMVhj72TFKbtw_93juX19WVdfUzh3KM9tCEjbTdUZvUfcUQ@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:25:24 -0400 From: Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> To: Levente Kurusa <lkurusa@...hat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>, Doug Thompson <dougthompson@...ssion.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "m.chehab@...sung.com" <m.chehab@...sung.com>, Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] edac: Remove fixmes in e7xxx_edac.c On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Levente Kurusa <lkurusa@...hat.com> wrote: > 2014-07-22 19:40 GMT+02:00 Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>: >> [...] >> >> Tony, >> >> What is the value of Page shift then ? If you can tell me it would be >> much easier for >> me to fix this. >> Cheers Nick > > Nick, > > Help is always welcome. However, what you are doing is effectively a > waste of time for you and for the maintainers as well, and hence cannot > be called help. You are writing emails that make absolutely no sense at all. > If you want to help us out, please consider learning three things: > > * The language that the kernel is written in: C > * The language that most kernel developers understand: English > * The environment the kernel is (in most cases) written in: UNIX > > If you had known these, then: > > * ... you would have already known that FIXMEs exist for a reason which is > not at all simple. > > * ... you would have understood that fixing FIXMEs without ANY reasoning and > asking about it is completely useless and wastes precious maintainer time. > > * ... you could have used grep for finding out PAGE_SHIFT and not need to ask > for it. > > Nick. Look, it is good that you are enthusiastic. However, this kind > of 'work' gives > you an undesirable reputation, which is {IF FROM:xerofoify@* THEN TRASH}... > > If you really want to help out, I suggest you to find yourself a piece > of hardware from > the store and try to write a driver for it. That way, you will learn > how it all works, and if > you are intelligent enough then you might get a "Kernel Job - Payed" > like you asked us > for them in November. > > Until then, please stop trying for FIXMEs. They will not get you a > commit in the kernel > 99% of the time. > > Hope you understand, > > Levente Kurusa Levente, I understand what your saying and I should have searched for Page shift. In addition I am already got commits in the kernel for fix mes so I feel that your comment on fix mes is incorrect. Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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