From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:49:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010622094934.A13075@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010621160309.A6744@thyrsus.com> <20010621154934.A6582@thyrsus.com> <20010621205537.X18978@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20010621160309.A6744@thyrsus.com> <7987.993197604@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <7987.993197604@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:13:24AM +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> It hasn't changed status in the last five days since your query was last
> answered. When it gets defined in arch/arm/config.in, its status has
> changed. Until that happens, please don't keep asking about it every few
> dayus.
You're a bit irritated. That's good. I *want* people who don't write
help entries for their configuration symbols to be a bit irritated.
That way, they might get around to actually doing what they ought to.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping
a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal
class.
-- David Mohler, 1989, on being denied a carry permit in NYC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-22 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-21 19:49 Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5 Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 19:55 ` Russell King
2001-06-21 20:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 8:13 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 13:49 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-06-22 13:47 ` Russell King
2001-06-22 13:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 13:54 ` Russell King
2001-06-22 14:28 ` Brent D. Norris
2001-06-22 14:00 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-06-22 14:13 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-24 0:05 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 15:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 16:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 13:56 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 14:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 14:54 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 16:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 17:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 22:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-21 22:40 ` Russell King
2001-06-21 22:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 8:24 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 13:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 2:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 14:47 Holzrichter, Bruce
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