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To: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 01:07:56AM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> I have a small question about the topic "how to reduce the workload for you". 
> We send the patch which should integrate batman-adv into net/ around two weeks 
> ago to David S. Miller and the netdev@vger mailing list [1]. Some hours later 
> Hagen Paul Pfeifer responded with some questions and different ideas - which 
> we (batman developers and Henning Rogge from olsr) either answered and/or 
> started to discuss them.
> 
> The problem is that the discussion stopped quite fast... actually there was 
> only one mail from the netdev guys. This is quite irritating to me and the 
> question arose whether we did something terrible wrong when we send the patch.

Nope, you all did fine.

> Maybe you could give us a small hint how to proceed further. If we should 
> wait, poke around or maybe submit it in a completely different way. It is not 
> about "getting it into net right away", but we would really like to get some 
> responses so we can work on it to make it better.
> 
> batman-adv works quite well for us - but that doesn't mean that it is good in 
> context of the current kernel development. And who should know it better than 
> the netdev guys.

Try sending it again after a few more days with the comment, "everything
is addressed in the last round of comments" somewhere in it.

Persistance is key :)

thanks,

greg k-h