Comments on: Internet Answers

By: martindorey

martindorey — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:55:51 +0000

I’ve been calling this “Morton’s Gambit” after Andrew Morton’s description of his technique of suggesting a deliberately botched fix in an interview that I think would be at http://kerneltrap.org/node/10 if that server were responding. I can’t but imagine that the prior art goes back further. Is it just an internet phenomenon?

By: Ian Lance Taylor

Ian Lance Taylor — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:19:36 +0000

Ah, a well-known technique, I see.

By: fche

fche — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:09:24 +0000

Boss Lady (if you remember her) had long practiced this approach.

By: tromey

tromey — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:20:25 +0000

I wonder if this post is a question phrased as an answer. Nice try!

By: ianw

ianw — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:23:54 +0000

I have long been a proponent of this approach since I heard Alan Cox say at a linux.conf.au “the quickest way to get anything fixed in the kernel is to send an obviously incorrect patch. People can’t resist telling you what’s wrong”. I’ve been sending obviously incorrect patches all over the place since!