Re: [PATCH] mm:Make the function zap_huge_pmd bool

From	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] mm:Make the function zap_huge_pmd bool
Date	2015-07-03 19:00 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 11:03:11AM -0400, nick wrote:
> 
> The reason I am doing this is Ted is trying to find a bug that I
> fixed in order to prove to Greg Kroah Hartman I have
> changed. Otherwise I would be pushing this through the drm
> maintainer(s).

I am trying to determine if you have changed.  Your comment justifying
your lack of testing because "it's hard to test" is ample evidence
that you have *not* changed.

Simply coming up with a commit that happens to be correct is a
necessary, but not sufficient condition.  Especially when you feel
that you need to send dozens of low-value patches and hope that one of
them is correct, and then use that as "proof".  It's the attitude
which is problem, not whether or not you can manage to come up with a
correct patch.

I've described to you what you need to do in order to demonstrate that
you have the attitude and inclinations in order to be a kernel
developer that a maintainer can trust as being capable of authoring a
patch that doesn't create more problems than whatever benefits it
might have.  I respectfully ask that you try to work on that, and stop
bothering me (and everyone else).

Best regards,

						- Ted
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Re: [PATCH] mm:Make the function zap_huge_pmd bool Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-07-03 16:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm:Make the function zap_huge_pmd bool Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> - 2015-07-03 17:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm:Make the function zap_huge_pmd bool Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-07-03 19:00 +0200

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