From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [patch 14/25] SCSI: use irq_handler_t where appropriate Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:17:20 -0700 Message-ID: <20070524081720.5675ad5d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <200705232141.l4NLfjq9001203@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <4654BB27.6050706@garzik.org> <1179960902.5569.48.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <465527D7.6030909@garzik.org> <1180015447.3692.6.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:11782 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750718AbXEXPL4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 11:11:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1180015447.3692.6.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Jeff Garzik , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Salyzyn, Mark" , Andrew Vasquez On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:04:06 -0500 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. I can understand subsystem maintainers ignoring lkml, but ignoring the subsystem mailing list makes no sense to me, especially if the subject contains "[PATCH]". > > If others have SCSI patches that have been sitting in limbo for weeks or > > months, send them to me, and I'll queue them in misc-2.6.git#scsi. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***