Re: [PATCH v7 01/10] ARM: davinci: move private EDMA API to arm/common

Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-02T16:45:22Z

On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:27:42PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> There are two people on this thread CC list who were also involved or
>> CC'd on the mails from the thread in 2010... Tony and Felipe.
>> Unfortunately, the person who agreed to do the work is no longer in the
>> land of the living. Yes I know it's inconvenient for people to die
>> when they've still got lots of important work to do but that's what can
>> happen...
>
> Hm... wasn't it David Brownell? He's the only person who I know has
> died recently who has dealt with DaVinci, MUSB and the releated stuff.

Actually, it wasn't David who was going to do it - that's where the email
thread gets messy because the mailer David was using makes no distinction
in text format between what bits of text make up the original email being
replied to, and which bits of text are written by David.

It might have been Felipe; there appears to be an email from Felipe saying
that as the immediate parent to David's email. But that's not really the
point here. The point is that _someone_ agreed to put the work in, and
_that_ agreement is what caused the patch to be discarded.

And, as I've already explained, you brought up the subject of it being
discarded shortly after, and it got discussed there _again_, and the
same things were said _again_ by at least two people about it being in
drivers/dma.

But anyway, that's all past history. What was said back then about it
being elsewhere in the tree is just as relevant today as it was back
then. The only difference is that because that message wasn't received,
it's now two years later with no progress on that. And that's got
*nothing* what so ever to do with me.

I know people like to blame me just because I'm apparantly the focus of
the blame culture, but really this is getting beyond a joke.

So, I want an apology from you for your insistance that I'm to blame
for this. Moreover, _I_ want to know what is going to happen in the
future with this so that I don't end up being blamed anymore for the
lack of progress on this issue.