linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] v4l2: Change call of function in videobuf2-core.c

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Message-ID: <CAPDOMVjHfw6Edn7LWpiu7NSquCzwiu8-fexV-0pBztO0NZTEXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2014 01:50:13 -0400
From:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
	Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] v4l2: Change call of function in videobuf2-core.c

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
>> On 4 August 2014 15:03, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl> wrote:
>>> On 08/04/2014 05:25 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>>>> This patch changes the call of vb2_buffer_core to use VB2_BUFFER_STATE_ACTIVE
>>>> inside the for instead of not setting in correctly to VB2_BUFFER_STATE_ERROR.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
>>>
>>> Dunno what's going on here after reading Dave Airlie's reply, but:
>>>
>>
>> Nick has decided he wants to be a kernel developer, a laudable goal.
>>
>> He however has decided not to take any advice given to me by a number of other
>> kernel developers on how to work on the kernel. So instead he sends random
>> broken patches to random subsystems in the hope that one will slip past a sleepy
>> maintainer and end up in the kernel.
>>
>> He isn't willing to spend his own time learning anything, he is
>> expecting that kernel
>> developers want to spoon feed someone who sends them broken patches.
>>
>> We've asked him to stop, he keeps doing it, then when caught out apologizes
>> with something along the lines, of I'm trying to learn, "idiot
>> mistake", despite having
>> been told to take a step back and try and learn how the kernel works.
>>
>> Now we have to waste more maintainer time making sure nobody accidentally
>> merges anything he sends.
>>
>> Dave.
> All of my merges are not in the main kernel and have been revoked.
> Cheers Nick


Dave,
I understand your issues with my programming. I need to try and
understand the kernel first before programming
for it.
Regards Nick
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