From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:41:19 +0100 (BST) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:60909 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20038470AbWI1HlR (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:41:17 +0100 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l23so677672nfc for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:41:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=lumznASxQwWaePtxDIPhKpjl/gXUclIFRBEI5FWq4OaBhH9gukHtnVTLgKj1lF60yD3El4vYZOxSfNZWPv9UBGpqoaqgyGzcsLZ1SDOcrNI/FoQ1YDY7ieupQ8rdjM/Iis7giytwtH1+N5XjmReYRvmHqVNMxX3cxALw41JUShY= Received: by 10.48.48.18 with SMTP id v18mr3423071nfv; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.24? ( [81.252.61.1]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id c1sm5055051nfe.2006.09.28.00.41.15; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <451B7CCB.1060406@innova-card.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:42:03 +0200 Reply-To: Franck User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Popov CC: Franck , Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: How to work with Linux-Mips ? References: <4518D33F.9070208@innova-card.com> <4519859A.1090306@embeddedalley.com> In-Reply-To: <4519859A.1090306@embeddedalley.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Franck Bui-Huu Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 12706 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: vagabon.xyz@gmail.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Peter Popov wrote: > > > >> These patchs have been kindly reviewed and acked by Atsushi Nemoto, >> but then no feedback from the MIPS team. I tried to get a status for >> MIPS team a couple of time, to know if something was wrong with them >> but MIPS people seem to not care about them. They even haven't >> bothered to take 10 seconds for replying something like: > > >> - your patches are broken because... >> >> - your patches do not respect our MIPS protocol, please resend... >> >> - Sorry we are very busy, please hold on... >> >> - OK your patches suck please try to work on ARM chips because MIPS >> is a very closed circle reserved to MIPS gurus. > > There is no such thing as a 10 sec patch review. Especially when it > comes to patches that touch generic portions of the kernel. Someone has > to very carefully consider what they are doing, any potential risks, how Who is claiming that ? I've never said that patch review needs 10 sec to be done.... > > MIPS Tech and linux-mips are separate entities. Personally I think MIPS > Tech has done a great service to themselves, their customers, and the > entire Linux MIPS community, by hiring Ralf to do new MIPS development > and properly support new chips coming out. Again, none has said the contrary... Franck