Wonderful story :) From date in mail list ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407 ) seems like [2014] should be appended.
Done! I didn't notice the date when I submitted the link, thanks for the suggestion.
“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
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Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
#22And here I am spending my afternoon tracking down a null reference error...
Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
#23Wonderful story :) From date in mail list ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407 ) seems like [2014] should be appended.
Nice attention to detail! Perhaps, if you have some time later, you could read over the Linux kernel docs?
Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its almost tears in my eyes level. I didn’t expect to have that reaction.
When I listen to a beautiful piece of music it can bring a tear to my eye. I shed a tear when my grandmother died. I have emotions. But can you explain how the hell this could bring tears to your eyes? Frankly, I just don't believe you.
Well, maybe it’s because I have a young son and this reminded me of the innocent, magical realm of childhood.
Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
#25Well, now a 4-year-old has one more kernel patch than I have...
There's nothing stopping you, except finding the time.
One of the things I'm most proud of as a dev is a tiny contribution to the Nim standard library. It's a single commit and very simple, but made the PostgreSQL adapter consistent with the other RBDMSs' adapters. At the time, I'd been using Nim for only a couple of days, but that didn't stop me from being able to contribute in a meaningful way.
I'm amused and humbled that despite all of the work I've done over the past decade, it's quite likely that a seven-line change that I did mostly in ignorance will be the thing that impacts the most people going forward.
Here's the change, if you're curious: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6381/commits/921cc53e40...
Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
#26The best part about this story is that it is entirely plausible that a 4 year old found the problem, unlike a lot of stories where we are supposed to think there is a 6 year old wunderkind submitting code patches to some OSS project.
Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
#27Until a 4-year old can deal with the efficacy in which Linus communicates with other humans they should not be allowed to submit patches.
Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
#28the difference between a community and a workplace is its tolerance, and need, for whimsy...
Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)
#29I kept wondering where to find the change. I didn't initially realize it is apparently included. But this seems to be it here (from the bottom of the page):
1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
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#30Linus on trivial patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255 [ Linux-kernel added back into the cc, because I actually think this is important. ] On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups/fixes/whatever patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant, patches? I…
I really hope that next time when somebody tries to paint Linus as an asshole and a toxic force for the community because of his rants, someone remembers to link this email too.