Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Al Viro wrote: >> Current tree handling of initializers is rather incomplete >> and in many cases broken. Patchset rewrites that stuff pretty much >> from scratch; AFAICS it works. > > Josh - you may already be aware of it, but I thought I'd point it out > anyway: when Al Viro sends me a patch (or set of patches), I personally > just realize that a superior intellect has contacted me, told me I'm > wrong, and given me the keys to fix it. > > IOW, Al's patches tend to be a good point to just say "Oh, ok, I was a > moron for ever writing anything else, thank you for not pointing it out > any more impolitely and not chewing my head off", and then just applying > or pulling them. > > Which is not to say that I've never gotten a patch without a bug in it > from Al, but I've never seen Al do something that wasn't fundamentally the > "Right Thing(tm)" to do. > > IOW, Al is one of those few people where I can just close my eyes and say > "yup, I'll apply it" without even bothering to look at the patch.
Yeah, I've observed the same thing from activity in both the kernel community and the Sparse community. I still look at the patches, but primarily so I can understand them and learn something from them, not because I expect to find anything wrong. :) - Josh Triplett
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