From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:39:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <1254844007.4383.85.camel@mulgrave.site> <1254862442.4383.183.camel@mulgrave.site> <1255012399.4187.24.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1255012399.4187.24.camel@mulgrave.site> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, James Bottomley wrote: > > So what do you want to do about this? I'm taking it (and the parisc one I was also unhappy with), but I'm a bit grumpy as usual. The parisc pull came totally outside the merge window, and the SCSI fix pull is technically perfectly fine, but what makes me grumpy is that I get the strong feeling that people aren't even _trying_ to hit the merge window with new drivers, because they decide that they instead can just push them any time. So I don't think I necessarily want to change the "new driver" policy per se, but I want people to see the merge window as the _primary_ time you get any new code in. The "yes, we'll take new drivers" thing should be the exception rather than the rule. It doesn't seem to be an exception. Linus