4 year old got her first linux kernel patch accepted
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Attached: 2 images Patch submitted to the #Linux kernel by a four-year-old girl🤠
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/110900072073406421
Attached: 2 images Patch submitted to the #Linux kernel by a four-year-old girl🤠
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407
Date Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:06 -0700
From Jonathan Corbet <>
Subject Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET)
Tero Roponen wrote:
> From: Maisa Roponen
>
> "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others
> have those things [=] below them and it does not."
>
> This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can
> be happy again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen
> [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance]
> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen
> ---
> When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
> niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
> she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
> me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.
Please inform your niece that the patch has been applied and that the
lonely "s" need pine away no longer.
Thanks,
jon
I saw the title and was about to start calling bullshit but then I actually read it and it's honestly the most adorable and wholesome thing. Her patch is greatly needed, and is critically important. I can't believe that such a major bug was missed by the dev team.
For one second I thought this was, like, Euler's second coming with a child just looking at code and being like:"Huh, so thats programming? Btw. you made an whoopsie there! frantically pointing"
somewhere there are such geniuses undiscovered because they were born in the wrong place and in an unfavorable configuration. that hurts us all more than we'll ever know.