[PATCH] removing COMPAT_43 from the linuxolator
Robert Garrett
rg70 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 22 12:09:31 PDT 2003
Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :> If the work is a little more then you have time for I would be
> :> happy to split the work with you, just point out the native syscall
> :> functions you want me to split and I'll split them.
> :
> :I'd like to do as much of the work as possible. However, I realize that
> :it
> :may be holding back another project until it is done. I should have a
> :couple syscalls separated by the end of the weekend.
> :--
> : David P. Reese, Jr.
> : daver at xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Don't worry about the timing, and remember that I *always* favor an
> incremental approach when possible. It is often nice to do things
> in small chunks so one can feel that one is accomplishing something
> real in the tree, so please feel free to do one or two system calls,
> submit that work, do the next few, submit that, etc..
>
> In fact, this sort of approach has major advantages even to the
> developer doing the work, because he can get feedback earlier if
> issues come up and correct the new work on the fly.
>
> Nobody should feel rushed. If the timing gets tight a developer
> working on A should expect that the developer working on B might spend
> some time on A to get B's dependancies out of the way, and not feel
> put out
> by that. Similarly if someone does a big commit and creates minor
> irritations in the tree it is reasonable for another developer to go
> in and make the minor commits required to fix the irritations without
> anyone feeling put out (and so far several people have done that when
> I've made big commits and I have done that when others have made big
> commits), though of course it depends on the work since you don't
> want to mess up another developer's patch sets if major continuing
> surgery is in progress.
>
> But I think people get the idea. We have to view the project as a
> group effort which means that we have to view any code, once
> committed, as being part of a greater whole rather then being owned by
> a particular developer.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bravo :)
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