From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272476AbTGZMqk (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:46:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272477AbTGZMqk (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:46:40 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:22983 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272476AbTGZMqi (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:46:38 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:01:42 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: some kernel config menu suggested tweaks Message-ID: <20030726130142.GD6560@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20030726121432.GB6560@louise.pinerecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Send a patch. > > i'd be happy to, but based on my previous experience sending > in a few patches, it's just not worth the aggravation any more. Well, you know the Gandhi routine: Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. > just one of my patches that got adopted took, literally, several > weeks of being dropped on the floor with no reason why. Trivial patches need to go to people like AC who tend to focus on aggregating fixes and are in a much better position to push upstream. > "we can't hire you. you don't have enough experience doing > this job." > "ok, so how do i get experience?" > "well, you have to do this job for a while." At which point you must get yossarian-ish enough to start a company. -- Tomas Szepe