Re: [PATCH] arm: ioperm use /proc/sys not sysctl

[ebiederm at xmission dot com (Eric W. Biederman)]

"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>> Are there people here who actually care about glibc functioning well?
>
> I do.
>
>> My apologies if this comes off rude. ÂBut I am rather insulted by a
>> response that seems to be saying I am not good enough to talk to you,
>> and you won't even take your patch as a starting place for a
>> discussion on how to make something work properly.
>
> I apologize, it was not my intent to insult. I only wanted to point
> out that there are standards for submissions to glibc.
>
> Thanks for the submission.
>
>> I sent the patch because that function is the only significant user of
>> sys_sysctl on linux. ÂThis reception makes me regret I sent the patch.
>> If a blow off is all I am going to get, well sysctl goes away in
>> September 2010 and I wish you well with the pieces.
>
> It certainly wasn't meant as a blow-off, other developers have
> responded to your question.
>
> One of my roles in the community is to point people at the appropriate
> bits of documentation that define what you need to get a patch
> accepted.

I apologize for being a bit gruff.  I was tired and the culture difference
from where I am working is quite huge, and the fsf does ask quite a lot
of people.

Eric