Re:Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
by microcow on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:37PM
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No! A flawed patch is not the equivalent of "taking a dump" in someone's yard. Proposing a flawed patch is not a contemptuous act, it's not insulting, and it is not injurious. Treating it as such is the problem.
Telling someone they "should not be anywhere near Linux kernel development" and to "just go away" is degrading and contemptuous.
Re:Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
by pritambaral on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:55PM
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I feel like the difference of opinion you and us are having here are ultimately over the difference in perspective here. You label it as merely a "flawed patch". The original comment by the kernel dev that incited this whole debate isn't even directed at the flaw in the patch, so it kinda feels like you're arguing at cross purposes here.
Re:Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
by rini17 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @03:54AM
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...and right thing to do in these circumstances.
Re:Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
by nix23 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:40AM
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No! Talking or writing about another person like that (in public) is shameful for that Guy and for that Hellwig Clown (the guy who lost against VMware) too. If you say something like that in private..ok, not nice but acceptable but NOT in Public that should be absolute clear for any decent human being.
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But a compile-time dependency on a non-gpl module should be very self-evident, and the documentation explicitly asks people to go and learn about how the GPL works...
Revealing that as Patch 21 of 21 just adds insult to injury. Wasted a lot of peoples time with that one.
The fact that the module in question is from nvidia further shows that the submitter just had no idea of the histoy and culture of the linux developer community. And that is the charitable Interpretation...
The kernel developers have to fend off stuff like that constantly, some are probably pretty jaded by now, which leads to responses like that.
It's normal human nature, most service workers who have to deal with customers have similar problems, and some develop the same kind of behaviour.
If you don't outsource thinking to other people you actually won't get reponses like this.