Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:04:32 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes |
| |
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:52:47 -0100 Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:
| On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:15:59PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: | | > > 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"? | > People are actually *doing* things, give them a break. | | There's a shitload of patches in the 2.4 commit archives that | mostly still apply. With each iteration of spelling fixes, | it becomes more and more work to weed through these to find | out if things are really applied or not. In the beginning I | used Rusty's 'isapplied' script. Its now pretty much useless, | requiring manual inspection of code on every diff. | | Spelling fixes aren't going to get us to 2.6.0 any faster. | There are _dozens_ of known problems, and I'll take patches | fixing real problems over spelling fixes any day.
What/where is the "2.4 commit archives"? Do you want/need any help with this?
-- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |