From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [git patches] Add and use media change notification Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:17:09 -0500 Message-ID: <472FA475.5030106@garzik.org> References: <20071104150711.GA29087@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:37046 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754545AbXKEXRN (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:17:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> The end to CD-ROM polling... newer SATA ATAPI hardware will emit >> 'asynchronous notification' events when media is changed. This adds >> support. > > I *really* didn't want to pull this. > > Not only is it after the -rc1 period, but I also think you pushed this ina > really offensive manner, and I don't like how you and James have made this > whole thing personal. You guys need to sort it out, and there is no way > you can blame James for all your troubles, since I've heard the same kind > of complaints about every single maintainer out there (including you) > about some driver or other infrastructure issue. > > So I'm unhappy about pulling this. > > That said, I did finally decide to just pull it. Partly because the > concept apparently has been in -mm for a while anyway (even if the final > patch has not - but the patch itself isn't that large, I'd worry more > about thngs like certain hardware simply not doing things right), but > mostly because I hate it when others hold up driver features, and I > decided that in this case this really is something that is better done > earlier rather than later, to get exposure as soon as possible. > > But I really think you need to lay off James, and help him rather than > make every single complaint a big flame-war! > > Please, Jeff? Fair enough... Jeff