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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for... by bigato on Monday January 22, 2018 @05:19AM (#16203284)
> "I don't understand why this is here, and I'm not merging it until I do"

This is not clear enough and could be interpreted as incompetence on the part of the speaker

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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for... by ealexhudson on Monday January 22, 2018 @05:37AM (#16203375)
It turned out that Linus had confused "IBRS" and "IBPB". That seems to me that he didn't understand it.

I'm not sure why saying "I don't understand this" would confer _incompetence_ rather than just not understanding. Understanding is easily gained with good communication. The original patch set clearly doesn't explain the point of the patches well, and everyone gets things wrong as well. There's no shame in saying "I don't understand this", it's not a final statement equivalent to "I will never be able to understand this".

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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for... by joesb on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:39AM (#16211524)
Which means you are insecure about being viewed as incompetent over furthering the discussion.

If you don't understand it, say you don't understand it.

Unless you are a narcistic person that think you can never fail and anything you don't understand is always garbage.

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