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technion on Oct 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why kernel development still uses email

I developed a series of patches for the RPi kernel fork. I use the Pi headless, and generally access it from a Windows machine.

I never tried to send those patches upstream - and the Pi fork uses Github for such things - but I'm entirely confident that if I tried to paste those patches into an email client somewhere along the line, I'd get an upstream maintainer pointing out that magical line breaks blew something up somewhere.

aisofteng on Oct 2, 2016 [–]

What I read is "I am entirely confident about what would happen if I tried to do something I've never tried to do", which is useless speculation.

ludamad on Oct 3, 2016 | [–]

What I read is that he develops kernel patches entirely on a Windows desktop, which is a relevant anecdote.

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