[BusyBox] [PATCH] Fix lsmod for 2.6
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Mon May 9 00:53:45 UTC 2005
I came across this message looking through the web archive for patches I'd
missed:
http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-May/014336.html
Apparently I twit-listed this guy back in december. (The last message I have
from him was sent on 12/21. Reading back on it, I'm not un-twitlisting him
either...)
However, to answer the implied question, I never claimed to have superior
judgement about this, I just claim to be doing it. My qualification is that
I'm _here_. If Eric were to have time to do this again, I'd happily stop.
Reading other people's patches in detail is WAY harder than writing your own
code.
I do read the patches I apply, but with parts of busybox that I don't use the
most I can really do is make sure that nobody who knows that code has
objected and that it doesn't break the build.
I'd also like to point out that people tend not to object to patches until
they get applied. Andrew Morton does what he calls "troll merges" to shake
out comments.
http://lwn.net/Articles/133295
I know very well that a patch can be revered. (I'd like to figure out how to
do so by a method other than applying the reverse patch to the SVN
history...)
There are several other people with commit access to the tree. I waited
months for them to tackle the backlog, and I'm only doing it because they
didn't. Eric asked somebody to step up and do this. I don't LIKE checking
in other people's code that changes bits I don't use, but we need to catch up
and put out 1.0.1...
Rob
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