what did i say? what did i just say? i wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, nick wrote:
On 14-09-17 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
and, as we've all seen, nick's other flaw is that, quite simply, he's selfish and greedy. his entire obsession is with the output of checkpatch, which means he wants to grab all the trivial cleanup (the low-hanging fruit, as it were) for himself, and not leave any for others. rather than take the time to understand the
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code, nick wants checkpatch to do all the work for him. in the end, nick doesn't want to do any work or understand how the kernel actually works -- he just wants patches, and he wants them as quickly and cheaply as possible.
to which nick responds (unbelievably, and confirming what i had just written):
That's not what I wanted I was trying to improve my rep after getting banned from vger.org and now it seems I can't even get a patch right. In addition I was trying to do check patch because it was easier for me due to not understanding some parts of the code. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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