From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the perfmon3 tree Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:31:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1227691889.4259.2871.camel@twins> References: <20081125210319.35b2d189.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20081125102234.GA4281@elte.hu> <7c86c4470811250640v4417fa4fs196f0d0bea136a45@mail.gmail.com> <20081125153345.GA20733@elte.hu> <7c86c4470811250836k2f798c21pe4766a565a6231ab@mail.gmail.com> <20081125165118.GF22504@elte.hu> <20081126140032.72d86f17.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20081126033318.GE8242@elte.hu> <7c86c4470811260032n64d69b04w5762e5f6cbd0cff9@mail.gmail.com> <20081126084604.GN26036@elte.hu> <20081126010022.63049908.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from viefep18-int.chello.at ([213.46.255.22]:28653 "EHLO viefep18-int.chello.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750797AbYKZJcB (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:32:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081126010022.63049908.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar , eranian@gmail.com, Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Alexander van Heukelum , the arch/x86 maintainers , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 01:00 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:46:04 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > _Especially_ if > > then the linux-next integrator also plays stupid about basic kernel > > workflow questions ;-) > > He didn't. I suggested to Stephane and Stephen that we get this stuff > into linux-next for a shot at 2.6.29 and that the collective 'we' make > an extra effort to get perfmon over the hump and merged up. > > You missed that email, missed the presence of perfmon in linux-next > and repeatedly chose to not review the perfmon patch series when it went > past. > > So here we all are. It just seems to me that CC-ing the intended 'we' at that point would have saved a lot of grief. Stuffing 2.3k lines of code in without the maintainers ACK is not something we do each day, and I can understand them getting miffed about that. I think every maintainer would consider such an action plain rude.