From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 04/10] acpi: adjust _acpi_{module,function}_namedefinitions Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:00:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20080626220053.0a00a3c3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200805010952.m419q3Jc031806@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <1209722812.22514.28.camel@linux-2bdv.site> <20080502054113.4e5839d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1209737075.22514.79.camel@linux-2bdv.site> <9D39833986E69849A2A8E74C1078B6B3446FBD@orsmsx415.amr.corp.intel.com> <20080623124523.76f38d90.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58195 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752235AbYF0FBP (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:01:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: "Moore, Robert" , trenn@suse.de, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:20:26 -0400 (EDT) Len Brown wrote: > In the future, please simply do not accept > patches to drivers/acpi/*/* (the ACPICA files) into -mm. Nope. > Instead, bounce them to the Linux/ACPI maintainer, > who will bounce them to the ACPICA maintainer -- > which is the head of the stream for these sub-directories. One of the things I do is to act as backup for leaky maintainers. Many years experience with hundreds of maintainers teaches me that they all leak like sieves. Stuff which we *want* in the kernel would just get lost if we relied upon maintainers to be 100% lossless. Now, if both the Linux/ACPI maintainer and the ACPICA maintainer were lossless then OK, but that would be unprecedented in my experience. Even the best of the best (Mauro Chehab) loses stuff occasionally.