From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:11:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20050922181103.GT4262@suse.de> References: <433104E0.4090308@triplehelix.org> <433221A1.5000600@pobox.com> <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> <1127398679.18840.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050922135607.GK4262@suse.de> <1127399409.18840.95.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4332F085.9060909@pobox.com> <20050922180816.GA2041@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050922180816.GA2041@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Joshua Kwan , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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