Re: [PATCH v5 04/28] mtd: spi-nor: swp: Improve locking user experience

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hi Pratyush,

> And here's what I am thinking: the first 9 patches are reviewed and good
> to go. I want to land them in this merge window so we cut down your
> patchset and land stuff sooner.
>
> Unfortunately I just can't seem to find time to review this series so I
> hope this helps some at least.

I know what the maintainer load can be, sometimes it does not play well
with the rest of the your personal and professional duties. But the
series has already been on the list for about 8 months, it's been looked
at by other people, the ones who had enough time to dedicate to it. From
my perspective, asking such contributions to wait indefinitely and then
suggesting partial application without a technical reason is not a
sustainable way to handle contributions. This series has not moved much,
it could have been applied *much* earlier. I've now addressed most of
the comments from Sashiko, v6 is coming, further improving the quality
for sure, as there were bugs - there are always. I am of course happy to
address further technical concerns, if there are any, but I would
strongly prefer merging the series as the coherent set it was intended
to be, rather than only taking the preparatory parts.

On top of that, as mentioned previously, I now have additional spi-nor
improvements and cleanups waiting behind this series. Keeping such a
large stack of out of tree patches for months is becoming painful to
maintain.

Thanks,
Miquèl