Drive-By Contributors to the Linux Kernel

eldavojohn writes "There's an interesting post over at the Kernel Trap that focuses on a man's attempt to find out how many one-time contributors Linux averages per release. Although imperfect due to some obvious unavoidable flaws, he got a few dirty numbers of 'never seen from agains' in the commits from patches 2.6.11 through 2.6.25 and the numbers are: {63, 148, 128, 92, 96, 122, 137, 140, 135, 95, 136, 153, 179, 179, 304}. This makes sense as another reader, Greg KH, pointed out that the distribution curve is tilted towards one-hit contributions, 'the distribution of all of our users are: 50% only contributed 1 patch; 25% contributed 2; 12% contributed 3; 6% contributed 4 and so on ...'"

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Re:I'm one!

[smittyoneeach]

I'm hoping to acquire the skillz.
While stuck in the Manchester, NH airport, I've just had my first bootable 2.6.26-rc4 compile.
With my Intel ICH7 drive, the ata_piix module apparently wasn't initializing things, and I had no /sys/block entries, and thus no /dev entries available after mdev to mount and boot.
Everything is easy when you know how to do it, but the make menuconfig options had change enough from my previous bootable 2.6.25.x image that I was hating life for a while.
Documentation? Stuff that: let's easter egg!
Also, whatever change was made to change the resulting device from /dev/sda to /dev/hda was _particularly_ painful. Hope that doesn't flop around like a politician too much in the future. :/
(Thank god that ordeal's over)