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Comment filteringComment filteringPosted Feb 23, 2010 4:23 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: 2.6.32.9 Release notes by chad.netzer Parent article: 2.6.32.9 Release notes A comment filtering mechanism is in the works, has been for a little while. I hope that people won't use it much, though; it would be better if we could express our disagreements in a more respectful manner...
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Comment filtering Posted Feb 23, 2010 6:44 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
> it would be better if we could express our disagreements in a more respectful manner...
Is this directed to the above mentioned "pretentious" people? If yes, could you please point out which of my comments was disrespectful here?
Comment filtering Posted Feb 23, 2010 13:56 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] It was not directed at anybody in particular, believe it or not. I just wish, in general, that the tone of the conversation would be a bit more respectful and that people would focus more on the issues and not other people...
Comment filtering Posted Feb 23, 2010 19:09 UTC (Tue) by chad.netzer (✭ supporter ✭, #4257) [Link]
And though I listed you as "pretentious", I would not put you in the same
class as PaxTroll or spender, who go out of their way to be condescending primadonnas. And corbet would likely label me as disrespectful in these comments (it's true; I do *not* respect the above two I mentioned).
The LWN comment section is not well suited to these kinds of opinionated
Meanwhile, I'd rather talk about things like which of these fixes actually
Comment filtering Posted Feb 23, 2010 23:50 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
2.6.32.x has actually been by far my least problematic kernel series in
ages. 2.6.31 had e1000e flow control lossage for me, and a couple of oopses, rapidly fixed; 2.6.30 had e1000e 82574L jumbo frame lossage and a single unreproducible incident of massive ext4 filesystem corruption (well I say 'massive' but fsck fixed it completely: it just took it half an hour of flooding messages across the screen). 2.6.32 has had nothing wrong at all, other than an obscure and hard-to-track-down intel-hda ALSA bug, exhibited only by PulseAudio complaints.
... or, rather, the only wrong thing is an explosion of almost totally
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