From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes
Date: 07 Mar 2003 23:15:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1047078959.23697.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030307121723.B3204@redhat.com>
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:17, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:16:07PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Or is the hubub really about something else? Like people
> > just hate the whole idea, and wish it would go away,
> > and don't really want to discuss it rationally?
>
> Spelling fixes are annoying ways to break patches that provide no
> user visible value. It also detracts from the character of the
> code: who wants "drain brammage" to be replaced with "brain dammage"?
There is a difference btween plain wrong and misleading text, printing
wrong things to the console, text that confuses non first language
speakers and accidentally removing humour.
Someone broke a little bit of asm and it got fixed. Someone broke
the pnp layer a lot longer before and its still not fixed. You
have regular releases, stuff gets broken now and then.
People are actually *doing* things, give them a break.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-07 7:16 Those ruddy punctuation fixes Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 17:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-03-07 18:00 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 23:15 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-03-08 0:52 ` Dave Jones
2003-03-08 0:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-08 0:29 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:09 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:08 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-05 11:10 Russell King
2003-03-05 11:22 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 14:18 ` Mike Dresser
2003-03-06 1:50 ` jw schultz
2003-03-06 9:58 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 10:46 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 12:20 ` Dave Jones
2003-03-06 3:11 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 1:04 ` Val Henson
2003-03-07 2:44 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 3:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 4:02 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 5:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 17:04 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] ` <mailman.1047000901.5238.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-03-07 3:07 ` Pete Zaitcev
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