Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Staging: batman-adv for 2.6.36 (3)

Greg KH
2010-07-09T23:40:04Z

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