From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [git pull] IDE fixes Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:03:43 +0200 Message-ID: <200906071703.43285.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200906071444.33047.bzolnier@gmail.com> <200906071632.30914.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20090607154048.07a7fb65@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:56176 "EHLO mail-fx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753054AbZFGO6d (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:58:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090607154048.07a7fb65@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Stephen Rothwell , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 07 June 2009 16:40:48 Alan Cox wrote: > > If you want to discuss any code that I push upstream then *please* quote > > it in your mails so we all can see what parts you question and discuss it > > based on technical merits. > > This isn't about technical merits - it is about *risk*. You don't submit fs/partitions/check.c change doesn't influence anything other that behavior of ide-gd driver and has been ACK-ed by Al Viro. > patches to core code to add new features just before the final release. This is not a feature but really a bug fix (requested by you along other people in the past).