hi all, I don't know if you have noticed or not , but Nick is back to lkml , and his patch has been accepted and applied on 19/11/2014 via commit 86619e7ba3991309b88969f9a2e5c7f2d014c680 but the only thing that surprises me is that i am not seeing any mail from Nick in lkml , but i am seeing mails which are sent in reply to Nick's mails. Does that mean Nick is intentionally not sending cc of his patch / mail to lkml ???
What is the point of this mail? This is complete off-topic discussion, not to mention it is mail about Nick and it is not coming from Nick. Because it is not long before this becomes another spam-fest about completely irrelevant topic. If his patch is accepted in LKML, it is maintainer's responsibility to make sure the patch is correct and if there indeed is a problem with the patch, then informing maintainer is more suitable line of action. -- Thank you Warm Regards Anuz
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:49:13 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee said:
but the only thing that surprises me is that i am not seeing any mail from Nick in lkml , but i am seeing mails which are sent in reply to Nick's mails. Does that mean Nick is intentionally not sending cc of his patch / mail to lkml ???
I've seen this happen with trolls before. They'll post to 3 or 4 people plus a mailing list they've been banned from, and hope that the 3 or 4 people don't realize the troll is banned - and when they do a 'reply all' the troll's message gets quoted and posted to the list, evading the ban.
I don't really believe he's a troll, and do believe his claim he has high-functioning autism. A quick cursory search on his Google+ content makes it pretty clear he's not some random kid getting a rise. Anuz is right though, this is for people new to Linux kernel programming and not a place for gossip and if we let it come to that then the community suffers anyway, even if he wasn't intending to. I'd suggest just avoiding lengthy posts that consume time writing (I know I've wasted my own time reading on him), and just answer his questions because between him spamming patches, he does have genuine questions to kernel internals; I think that's fair. I'm optimistic he's done the most damage he can do, but consider him an exercise on the chance that there was someone actually malicious trying to subvert the development process. So I'm all for a moratorium on "Isn't Nick awful" on these boards. On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:37 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:49:13 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee said:
but the only thing that surprises me is that i am not seeing any mail from Nick in lkml , but i am seeing mails which are sent in reply to Nick's mails. Does that mean Nick is intentionally not sending cc of his patch / mail to lkml ???
I've seen this happen with trolls before. They'll post to 3 or 4 people plus a mailing list they've been banned from, and hope that the 3 or 4 people don't realize the troll is banned - and when they do a 'reply all' the troll's message gets quoted and posted to the list, evading the ban.
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