From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 200/493] irda: remove use of __devinit Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:25:32 -0800 Message-ID: <20121119122532.4903bea3@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <1353349642-3677-1-git-send-email-wfp5p@virginia.edu> <1353349642-3677-200-git-send-email-wfp5p@virginia.edu> <20121119.140654.780679585475336928.davem@davemloft.net> <20121119192121.GA16694@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , wfp5p@virginia.edu, samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:52041 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754778Ab2KSU0k (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:26:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20121119192121.GA16694@kroah.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:21:21 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:06:54PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > > > > It is absolutely not reasonable to post nearly 500 patches all > > at the same time. > > > > Do not do this ever again. > > Bill did this with the assumption that I would take them through my > driver-core tree, as I asked that he do this work. The 000 message said > that, but that wasn't sent out to all of the recipients, so I can > understand how you didn't see this. > > Also, I was the only one that got all 500 emails, everyone else should > have only seen a small quantity. > > As you object to these, that's fine, I'll not apply anything to my > treethat touches the drivers/net/ or net/ tree at this point in time, is > that ok? > > But the end goal is to drop CONFIG_HOTPLUG entirely, and these __dev* > markings, as they don't do anything anymore. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html This seems like a case where a pull-request should have been used, rather spamming everyone and every mailing list.