Re: [patch 14/25] SCSI: use irq_handler_t where appropriate

Jeff Garzik
2007-05-24T20:52:49Z

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:51 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>> It's not a bug fix or even an enhancement. Historically, it is quite
>>> difficult to get maintainers to ack these ... particularly if you don't
>>> cc them.
>> If neither you nor the maintainers are reading and responding to patches
>> sent to linux-scsi, I don't think the problem is sitting in my chair.
>
> Oh come off it ... You've been around long enough to know that
> maintainers are not always watching everything ... it would be nice if
> they were, but to give a patch the best shot at review, you try to
> attract their attention. Specifically, in this case, you should cc the
> maintainers and you should have a subject line explaining that you are
> modifying their driver. It is very easy to ignore a patch that's simply
> waved at the SCSI list with a generic subject line.

If individual driver maintainers are not paying attention to what is
going on in their subsystem, and in the kernel as a whole, then the
problem does not lie with the external patch author.

Jeff