[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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