From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "luke.leighton" Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:30:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20130607205940.4816fed5@skate> <4247099.i8S79t0Pua@flatron> <20130609223149.GO18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130609223149.GO18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Tomasz Figa , Thomas Petazzoni , devicetree-discuss , Stephen Warren , Linux Kernel Mailing List , debian-arm@lists.debian.org, "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , Maxime Ripard , Linux on small ARM machines , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:09:59PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >> this is all a rather round-about way to say that for those people who >> heard and are thinking of heeding russell's call to "be silent and to >> ignore me" > > Okay, so you've just misrepresented me in the above comment. I never > said anything of the sort. The closest that I've come to a comment like > that is asking you to stop wasting people's time. close enough. > So, given your displayed inability to properly convey what people have > said to you in a discussion in your own replies, is there *any* reason > that anyone should trust you to communicate their position to any other > third party? trust is always something that has to be given, russell. respect is earned, but trust is given. many make the mistake of believing that trust is earned [people who seek to defeat others as "enemies" know this and exploit it to devastating effect]. so i can't answer your question directly, but consider this: the people that i work with have known me for a long time. they know i'm a bit of a live wire (you saw that wookey called me "crazy luke") and they often go as completely spare at some of the spanners i throw in the works just as everyone else does. it's *they* who will be doing all the talking, and i will be advising them in the background over the next week so that *technically* they're prepped. everyone has a different role to play here. /peace l.