From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3 Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:04:04 -0400 Message-ID: <1255032244.4187.267.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <1254844007.4383.85.camel@mulgrave.site> <1254862442.4383.183.camel@mulgrave.site> <1255012399.4187.24.camel@mulgrave.site> <1255031298.4187.260.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > Could I remind you that at the last kernel summit I was the one > > advocating for holding drivers out of tree until they met our standards > > and you were the one who told me not to do this ... Jon even captured > > it: > > What the hell is wrong with you? > > You're bringing up total red herrings that have nothing to do with > anything. > > My point is: > - that's not just another driver. That's FIFTY THOUSANDS LINES OF > LARGELY INFRASTRUCTURE CRAP. > > - I'm not arguing that we shouldn't merge the driver > > - I'm arguing that you damn well should have used the merge window for > something like this! > > What part of "it's already -rc3, and you're pushing 50kloc of crap that > almost nobody will care about" can you not understand? > > What part of "merge window" do you have issues with? OK, you're saying the merge window exemption should only apply to drivers which meet our coding standards. That's fine, I can live with that ... and that's how we'll operate in future. > What part of "sure, I'll take new drivers after the merge window, but COME > &*^@ ON!" do you have trouble understanding? What does the ^@ mean again? > Stop bringing up totally irrelevant crap. James