From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/21] Add blk_q_mask
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:40:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081116174024.GF6958@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226845288.3556.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:21:28AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> Could you just pick one? If it's about credit, then the reporting stats
> go by Author. All three signoffs will do is inflate your rank in the
> Signed-off-by stats (which I suppose we use for the kernel summit), but
> I don't think it will give equal credit to the three entities.
It also risks annoying the person who collects stats for the kernel
summit, who might react if he noticed someone was trying to game the
system by arbitrary dividing the person's signed-off stats by 3, or
otherwise adjust the statistic so it matches with reality, plus a
little extra discount for the annoyance factor. :-)
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-17 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-15 23:11 [PATCH] [0/21] Remove isa_unchecked_dma and some more GFP_DMAs in the mid layer v5 Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [1/21] Add the alloc/get_pages_mask calls Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [2/21] Add blk_q_mask Andi Kleen
2008-11-16 14:21 ` James Bottomley
2008-11-16 17:40 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-11-16 22:19 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [3/21] Pass gfp to scsi_allocate_command Andi Kleen
2008-11-16 15:29 ` James Bottomley
2008-11-16 22:21 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [4/21] Add sense_buffer_isa to host template Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [5/21] Remove unchecked_isa in BusLogic Andi Kleen
2008-11-16 15:46 ` James Bottomley
2008-11-16 22:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-17 11:03 ` James Bottomley
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [6/21] Remove unchecked_isa_dma in advansys.c Andi Kleen
2008-11-16 16:56 ` James Bottomley
2008-11-16 22:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-17 11:32 ` James Bottomley
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [7/21] Remove unchecked_isa_dma in gdth Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [8/21] Remove unchecked_isa_dma in eata.c Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [9/21] Remove unchecked_isa_dma in aha1542 Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [10/21] Remove unchecked_isa_dma in aha152x/wd7000/sym53c416/u14-34f/NCR53c406a Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [11/21] Remove GFP_DMA uses in st/osst Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [12/21] Remove unchecked_isa_dma support for hostdata Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [13/21] Use blk_q_mask/get_pages_mask in sg driver Andi Kleen
2008-11-16 2:11 ` Douglas Gilbert
2008-11-16 22:17 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-17 5:11 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-17 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-17 11:07 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-17 11:23 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-17 11:22 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-17 11:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-17 11:47 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [14/21] Rely on block layer bouncing for ISA DMA devices scanning Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [15/21] Don't disable direct_io for unchecked_isa_dma in st.c Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [16/21] Remove automatic block layer bouncing for unchecked_isa_dma Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [17/21] Remove GFP_DMA use in sr.c Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [18/21] Remove unchecked_isa_dma from sysfs Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [19/21] Switch to a single SCSI command pool Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [20/21] Finally kill unchecked_isa_dma Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 23:11 ` [PATCH] [21/21] Convert DMA buffers in ch.c to allocate via the block layer Andi Kleen
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