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Linus Blocks kdbus Code Merges from Kay Sievers

posted by janrinok on Friday April 04 2014, @07:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the never-one-to-stay-silent dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

From an email from Linus Torvalds to GKH

"Greg just for your information, I will *not* be merging any code from Kay [Sievers] into the kernel until this constant pattern is fixed.

This has been going on for *years*, and doesn't seem to be getting any better. This is relevant to you because I have seen you talk about the kdbus patches, and this is a heads-up that you need to keep them separate from other work. Let distributions merge it as they need to and maybe we can merge it once it has been proven to be stable by whatever distro that was willing to play games with the developers.

But I'm not willing to merge something where the maintainer is known to not care about bugs and regressions and then forces people in other projects to fix their project. Because I am *not* willing to take patches from people who don't clean up after their problems, and don't admit that it's their problem to fix."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday April 04 2014, @08:47PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday April 04 2014, @08:47PM (#26380)

    My impression is that periodically, Linus makes a big decision about what will and will not be included. Back on the other site, there were a bunch of these stories that would show up whenever it happened from miffed kernel devs and/or their supporters. In some cases, it's been so frequent as to appear to be a concerted effort to remove Linus as BDFL of Linux.

    And Linus has been pretty clear about his basic mantra: Don't Break Userspace. And this post is presenting a pretty good corollary: If you break userspace, apologize and do your very best to fix it. Both of these seem like very good rules to have for kernel development.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday April 04 2014, @09:43PM

    by edIII (791) on Friday April 04 2014, @09:43PM (#26414)

    I've heard he can be a real jerk, but from everything in TFS, it sounds very reasonable and he is just calling out a piss-poor programmer.

    There should be more people like him, not less, involved in Linux.

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