From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933716AbYD3Wi6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:38:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760275AbYD3Wip (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:38:45 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:34671 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756432AbYD3Win (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:38:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:40:20 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Linus Torvalds , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! In-Reply-To: <200805010023.32213.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200804302245.50817.rjw@sisk.pl> <200805010023.32213.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 1 May 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 30 of April 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> So your "fewer commits over a unit of time" doesn't make sense. > > Oh, yes it does. Equally well you could say that having brakes in a car > didn't make sense, even if you could drive it as fast as the engine allowed > you to. ;-) > >> We have those ten thousand commits. They need to go in. They cannot take >> forever. > > But perhaps some of them can wait a bit longer. not really, if patches are produced at a rate of 1000/week and you decide to only accept 2000 of them this month, a month later you have 6000 patches to deal with. history has shown that developers do not stop developing if their patches are not accepted, they just fork and go their own way. David Lang