On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Wang Shilong <wangshilong1991@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Hugo, >>>> >>>> Am Samstag, 26. Juli 2014, 11:05:03 schrieb Hugo Mills: >>>>>> I am not asking to hold my hand >>>>> >>>>> You are, though. Something like using grep to find code that (might >>>>> be) related to the thing you're trying to work with is _fundamental_. >>>>> You should expect to be reading the code -- several layers deep, in >>>>> both directions from any given function -- in order to understand what >>>>> it does and how it fits in, and what problems you might enncounter if >>>>> you change it. If you won't put in that degree of basic effort, then >>>>> you won't get very far. >>>> >>>> Actually, from what I read from Nick Krause so far here and on LKML: >>>> >>>> Can it be that he is at admittedly quite inventive trolling? >>>> >>>> I found none of his posts to be even remotely convincing although he submitted >>>> a patch elsewhere. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your detailed explaination tough. >>> >>> Hugo is one of most reliable and serious man i have known. >>> >>> Anyway, Nick if you really want to do something, just follow Hugo, Ted and others' >>> advices. Contributing Btrfs has many ways, try it and report some BUGs, add some >>> regression tests etc are all welcome IMO. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Wang >>>> >>>> >>>> To Nick: If I am mistaken – mea culpa. But your posts just seem to follow what >>>> I perceive the usual style of something into trolling. >>>> >>>> Ciao, >>>> -- >>>> Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de >>>> GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 >>> >> >> Fine then I guess I need to read the documentation and other things on my own. > > I don't see how it can work any other way, but my house plant disagrees and wishes to volunteer doing all of this for you. I don't recommend it because Btrfs developers do not need a smart aleck house plant writing kernel code. > >> Seems everyone here wants me to figure out everything on my own. > > By my reading, not everything, but rather specific things. You need a basic common frame of reference before questions and collaboration are workable. What's a car? Why do I need one? Where would I go? Roads? Wait there are other cars? Traffic signals? Insurance? Fuel? Oy this sounds complicated… I don't think I want or need one of these things. > > > > Chris Murphy > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html That's fine I don't find :). Sorry about being lazy in advance, bad habits. Cheers Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
