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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Salyzyn,
	Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>,
	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 14/25] SCSI: use irq_handler_t where appropriate
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:52:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4655FB1E.7050701@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180015447.3692.6.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

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




  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-23 21:41 [patch 14/25] SCSI: use irq_handler_t where appropriate akpm
2007-05-23 22:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 22:16   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-23 22:55   ` James Bottomley
2007-05-24  5:51     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-24 14:04       ` James Bottomley
2007-05-24 14:28         ` Salyzyn, Mark
2007-05-24 15:21           ` James Bottomley
2007-05-26 20:45             ` James Bottomley
2007-05-24 15:17         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-24 15:28           ` James Bottomley
2007-05-24 20:49             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-25  9:32               ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-25  9:06           ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-24 20:52         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-24 13:32     ` Salyzyn, Mark
2007-05-23 23:00   ` David Miller
2007-05-24 11:31 ` Andrew Vasquez

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