"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'
Am I mistaken in thinking that in this case, it might also be a cultural/communication problem?When Yinghai answers:  We did do the analyzing, and only difference seems to be:
  good one is using 0x80000000
  and bad one is using 0xa0000000.

he clearly didn't understand what Linus meant by "think and analyze".I don't know the Chinese culture well enough (assuming Yinghai is from China), but I am under the impression that they would emphasize more on results (fix the problem) than on processes (understand why the fix works, in order to be sure we are not breaking something else).Am I wrong?