Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge?

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Thu, Sep 22 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:04:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Why not just send it to me and Andrew and get it merged.
> > 
> > The way we keep everybody honest (me, maintainers, and random developers) 
> > is with this concept called "open source", which means that anybody can 
> > fix a problem, and you don't need to wait for the "vendor". 
> > 
> > Yes, it's good to go through channels, but when that doesn't work, it's 
> > good to go _past_ them too.
> 
> Umm, no one tried.  The last time it came up there was a healthy
> discussion, but it stopped somewhere and no one followed up.  There
> were two sets of patches from Jens and James and we need to arrive
> somewhere in the middle.
> 
> That's exactly what I said above, people should stop bitching and bring
> the patch up again - I'm pretty sure we'll find an acceptable variant
> real soon.

Sure, I'll brush up a version and post it tomorrow.

-- 
Jens Axboe