Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jan 2015 13:02:17 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert 9fc2105aeaaf56b0cf75296a84702d0f9e64437b to fix pyaudio (and probably more) | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote: > > It wasted a lot of people's time before by simply being there and wrong > before it was removed. It's only a matter of whose time you want to > waste. Really.
Really. Shut up.
The whole "no regressions" thing is very much about the fact that we don't waste users time.
We want users to be able to upgrade their kernels, and feel safe in knowing that we as kernel developers did our best - including very much "spending our time" - to make sure that users don't have to waste time.
And if you aren't ok with "wasting time" on trying to give that kind of reassurances to users, then you shouldn't be working on the kernel.
I'm serious about this. You really *need* to understand that. Your job as a kernel developer is very much to support the users. Not try to make it easy for *you* at the cost of being nasty for *them*.
The kernel serves user space. That's what we do.
Linus
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