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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, Insightful) by Open4D on Friday April 04 2014, @09:01PM

    by Open4D (371) on Friday April 04 2014, @09:01PM (#26387) Journal

    The systemd bug report is: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935 [freedesktop.org]

    But that was closed.

    So there was an LKML thread here [iu.edu], about possible Linux patches to deal with the problem instead. Torvalds's announcement about Sievers is the first reply.

    But now the systemd bug has a status of "REOPENED". So maybe Torvalds's announcement had the desired effect?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @09:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @09:48PM (#26418)

    And here's a fix:

    + if (!strcmp(p->p_name, "systemd")) killproc(p, "fuck you");

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05 2014, @01:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05 2014, @01:39AM (#26489)

      fuck me?

      not syncing: attempt to kill init!

      fuck you!

    • (Score: 1) by Subsentient on Saturday April 05 2014, @02:46AM

      by Subsentient (1111) on Saturday April 05 2014, @02:46AM (#26512) Homepage Journal

      Oh man, that's a funny one.

      --
      "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Friday April 04 2014, @11:47PM

    by zocalo (302) on Friday April 04 2014, @11:47PM (#26456)
    The activity log [freedesktop.org] of the SystemD bug report is worth a look. Yep, that sure looks like the right kind of people to trust with the replacement for init and arguably the most important part of the OS after the kernel...
    --
    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!

    • (Score: 1) by blackpaw on Saturday April 05 2014, @08:24AM

      by blackpaw (2554) on Saturday April 05 2014, @08:24AM (#26584) Journal

      Wow, that's just plain childish. How embarrassing. Its like a five year sticking their fingers in their ears going "NYAH NYAH NAYH! CAN'T HEAR YOU!"