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Message-ID: <53CEB8DB.1000301@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:17:47 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> To: Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>, 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 07/22/2014 11:25 AM, Nick Krause wrote: > 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. so you know that PAGE_SHIFT is not always 12? > In addition I am already got commits in the kernel for fix mes so I feel > that your comment on fix mes is incorrect. what is your goal? -- ~Randy -- 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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