[GIT PULL] Multi Cluster Power Management infrastructure

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Apr 6 20:32:39 EDT 2013


On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 01:23:42AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:30:58AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > Now, I'm currently on holiday.  I'm going to be on holday until after
> > > mid-April.  I'm not pulling anything until then.  I'm not applying anything
> > > until then.  I'm not even reading this mailbox - and given current mail
> > > rates at 300-400 messages per day, I will *not* be reading back over a
> > > fortnights worth of email.
> > 
> > That is also unacceptable.  Again, you are the appointed ARM kernel 
> > maintainer.  You have to plan a backup when you are away.  If the load 
> > is too much, you have to delegate.
> 
> Thank you for showing what a self-centred individual you are.
> 
> Tell me, how do I delegate the physical act of scanning through email
> to someone else to find out those emails which I may want to reply to?
> 
> Now, just take a moment to do the math.  At 400 messages per day, with
> an average of one minute a message, that's 6.5 hours.  Four days of that
> and you're looking at 20 hours to catch up - realistically two days.
> Meanwhile another 13 hours of messages (800) have arrived.  So that's
> another day and a bit of nothing but scanning, during which time more
> than 6.5 hours of messages have again arrived...
> 
> I've said this before, and I've done the above before - over a much
> longer period.  Other kernel developers do this too - they will actively
> remove their mailboxes after returning from a vacation because its
> too painful to catch up by reading mail.  Linus will also do the same -
> he will require things to be (re-)sent when he's returned from vacation.
> 
> Yet _you_ seem to think that this is not acceptable behaviour?  Sorry,
> I disagree - it's the _only_ sensible and sane way.

And the last thing to mentoion is that this is the last night before I
drive back home, and I've just spent the last *two* hours dealing with your
crap emails.  It's now 1:30am.  If I have an accident as a result of
this lack of sleep then I hold you responsible for it, because obviously
your patches are far more important than anything else in the whole damned
world.



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