From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1PsujN-0002is-Hc for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:17:02 +0000 Received: by wwb29 with SMTP id 29so1314074wwb.18 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:16:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] MTD: make MTD_CONCAT support mandatory From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov In-Reply-To: References: <1294745619-7142-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <201101121425.49587.sr@denx.de> <1298623638.2798.11.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:15:37 +0200 Message-ID: <1298628937.2798.28.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Stefan Roese , David Woodhouse Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 13:05 +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > On 2/25/11, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 17:07 +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > >> What about this series? Will it find it's way to kernel or should I do > >> some more steps? > > > > They still sit in my l2-mtd-2.6.git tree. You are not expected to do > > anything, David should look at them an pick them (or reject with an > > e-mail explaining the reasons) later. Usually he does this closer to the > > merge window. > > Fine, thank you for the explanation. I was just asking because I did not > know the process behind MTD subsystem. It should probably be documented. But how it works is that there is David who is the maintainer. But he is very busy. And there is me who helps him. I collect patches in my l2 tree. I review those I can and put my signed-off-by or some other tag. I do not review all patches, and those I did not review do not have my signed-off-by. Then at some point David takes a look at my tree and takes patches from there. If there are patches he dislikes, he usually replies with a comment and does not take the patch. So, in your case, the patches are still waiting for his attention. In the worst case, he picks patches from my tree when the merge window opens. > BTW: I've heard the idea about making MTD partitions also a mandatory > functionality of MTD subsystem. If I make such patches, will stand a chance > to be accepted, or it's still better to keep MTD parts an option? In my humble opinion which I think was supported by other people - yes, the config option is useless and only contributes to mess. I personally believe we need to kill this. And I just asked David, he does not mind. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)