From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Polling (was Re: [PATCHSET 2/2] implement PMP support, take 6)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:49:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FDAF16.9080900@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46FD5D55.4070706@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> This doesn't affect Tejun or anyone else really, but going through
>>>> -mm tends to gum up the works. Your patches wind up not applying to
>>>> libata#upstream, in which case they get dropped and I assume Andrew
>>>> or someone will resend usable versions.
>>>
>>> Its the only way to get testing done and get them into distributions in
>>> time.
>>
>> Not true... libata gets auto-propagated into -mm, and Andrew pulls
>> regularly.
>
> I believe the point was that getting things into libata is glacial
> compared with getting them into -mm. Witness the PMP patchset.
I don't think PMP was ever in -mm?
But regardless, people can send me "for test only" or WIP stuff that I
can auto-propagate to -mm via libata-dev.git. I keep many
libata-dev.git branches alive with testing and WIP code, and it doesn't
consume much time at all.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-29 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-23 4:19 [PATCHSET 2/2] implement PMP support, take 6 Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 01/10] libata-pmp: update ata_eh_reset() for PMP Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 02/10] libata-pmp: implement Port Multiplier support Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 07/10] sata_sil24: implement PORT_RST Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 06/10] sata_sil24: implement PMP support Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 04/10] libata-pmp: extend ACPI support to cover PMP Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 03/10] libata-pmp: hook PMP support and enable it Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 08/10] ahci: implement PMP support Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 05/10] libata-pmp: implement qc_defer for command switching " Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 09/10] ahci: move host flags over to pi.private_data Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 4:19 ` [PATCH 10/10] ahci: implement AHCI_HFLAG_NO_PMP Tejun Heo
2007-09-26 2:09 ` Polling (was Re: [PATCHSET 2/2] implement PMP support, take 6) Jeff Garzik
2007-09-26 2:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-26 8:41 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-28 12:10 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-28 13:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-28 14:18 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-28 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-28 15:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-28 15:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-28 15:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-28 20:00 ` Mark Lord
2007-09-29 1:49 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-09-29 3:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-29 4:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 5:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-29 16:51 ` Greg Freemyer
2007-09-29 20:56 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-01 12:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-28 15:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-28 16:48 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-28 20:02 ` Mark Lord
2007-09-28 20:25 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-28 21:03 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-29 1:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-29 5:24 ` Tejun Heo
2007-10-01 13:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-02 0:11 ` Tejun Heo
2007-10-02 14:25 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-02 14:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-29 12:32 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-01 12:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-02 0:12 ` Tejun Heo
2007-10-02 12:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-02 13:06 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-02 13:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-06 22:02 ` Tejun Heo
2007-10-09 2:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 6:54 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-28 14:20 ` Mark Lord
2007-09-28 15:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-28 15:55 ` Alan Cox
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