Andrew Sayman

Kerneltrap thread archive

From: David Miller <davem@...>
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection
Date: Apr 14, 1:43 am 2008

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:39:59 -0700 (PDT)

> I wrote or merged in ~10 bugs in the last hour, for example.

Bug fixes!  I meant "fixes" I swear!

That's quite a Freudian slip if I ever saw one.

Overall what we're looking at is a fairly classic debate between process vs. quality vs. code contribution. Looking at the individual pieces and steps, the conversation doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Miller and others don't want to be bogged down and think they are on the wrong track. Morton just wants to keep everybody on the right track and nobody else seems to agree that there's a problem.

I like conversations like this that manage to stay civil because they keep attention on the problem. People are pulling out data, solving problems, and doing everything they can to convince Morton that there isn't a problem. This, is a good thing. It's the sort of bureaucracy that the lkml represents: No process, but lots of arguing and attention to keep things going. That passion drives it. Somewhere I imagine Morton smiling as all of these developers jump on to fix bugs and prove him wrong. Maybe he wasn't right in the first place, but, if more bugs get fixed, should he even care?