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Community faults
Community faults
Posted Sep 26, 2007 16:46 UTC (Wed) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)In reply to: Community faults by mjg59
Parent article: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)
...reluctant to submit anything to LKML because of the perception that it'll just result in people calling them incompetent ...
Been there, done that. I updated the Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO and collected bug reports from its readers across two years. I submitted a set of patches to LKML to fix those bugs. I'll never do that again :-)
[And no, my code is not that bad.]
Interestingly, my code to set the TCP congestion control algorithm from Netfilter was also rejected. But this was done after a pleasant discussion and for a good technical reason. I attribute the pleasantness of that encounter to not CC-ing the code to LKML.
I've written a NAT module for Cisco's Skinny protocol for their IP phones. Not sure if I can stand the hassle of submitting it.
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