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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by toyg on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:49AM (#37672448)
It was stated by the maintainer as the reason for discarding the author's contribution.
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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by Sprocklem on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:37PM (#37679176)
What the maintainer actually said was [0]:

> Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you?

Which to me, at least, reads very differently than claiming the author's patch is worse.

[0] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2022-June/24...

(Credit to nolist_policy for pointing this out upthread.)

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