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“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)

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Post by danharaj »

golergka wrote: post #30
gowld wrote: post #9

Linus 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.

You don't have to be an asshole all the time to be an asshole.

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by mojomark »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #29

I 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 ------------------------------- +-------------------------------

For the love of god I still don't see an 's' with a missing (or newly inserted) "=". I've spent way too much time looking at this

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by craftyguy »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #25
commandlinefan wrote: post #7

Well, 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 humbl…

> There's nothing stopping you, except the one thing that stops a lot of people

FTFY. There's a non-zero amount of time investment required to submit kernel patches (learning enough git, using the mailinglist, responding to questions, submitting revisions, etc)

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by zamalek »

caymanjim wrote: post #36
black-tea wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry but there's no way the 4 year old learnt anything from this. Maybe the adult did, though. Is that the point?

She learned that her opinion is valued. She learned that it's ok to question things. She likely had a sense, based on the activity that followed, that she effected change in some way. I'm sure it was explained to her, and while of course she doesn't understand what a kernel or source code are, she surely had a sense of some positive accomplishment.

The world will become a better place if all kids get this golden treatment. I wish we could so easily push trivial changes to society but, in a very small way, this ripple in the ocean did.

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by chrisper »

mojomark wrote: post #43
DoreenMichele wrote: post #29

I 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 ------------------------------- +-------------------------------

For the love of god I still don't see an 's' with a missing (or newly inserted) "=". I've spent way too much time looking at this

There is a - missing under the s of parameters.

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by [deleted] »

iNate2000 wrote: post #37
DoreenMichele wrote: post #29

I 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 ------------------------------- +-------------------------------

Yes, I was also confused looking for one of "those things [=]". I guess it was actually one of these things [-]. :D

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Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by was_boring »

caymanjim wrote: post #36
black-tea wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry but there's no way the 4 year old learnt anything from this. Maybe the adult did, though. Is that the point?

She learned that her opinion is valued. She learned that it's ok to question things. She likely had a sense, based on the activity that followed, that she effected change in some way. I'm sure it was explained to her, and while of course she doesn't understand what a kernel or source code are, she surely had a sense of some positive accomplishment.

Exactly. My 3.5 year old could have noticed this (looks at my computer while I'm typing, and loves it somehow) and if they pointed it out I would have said "You're right! Let's fix it. Here you press that key. Great, we fixed it for us, but what about grandma? Should we fix it for her too?"

This would then lead to a kernel patch and they would feel incredibly happy about for as long as they remembered it (little kids love to help in any way).

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