4 year old got her first linux kernel patch accepted

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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"

I wonder what editor she used. Hope it was vim!

if this 4 year old is proficient with emacs i’m going to kill myself

Let’s just make room for the next generation

And you should not forget that Emacs is way harder when you are 4 because your hands are smaller!

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