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: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <1255031298.4187.260.camel@mulgrave.site> <20091008210737.GD29181@mit.edu> <20091009091538.GA4154@elte.hu> <1255097287.2934.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20091012130652.GB25464@elte.hu> <1255357148.2850.91.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20091012145453.GD4565@elte.hu> <1255361148.2850.298.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50726 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756034AbZJLRZq (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:25:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1255361148.2850.298.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Theodore Tso , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Jing Huang On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > I think you are interpreting what should go into drivers/staging/ _very_ > > narrowly. > > As it is my right to do. Umm, James, it cuts both ways. Others can assert their interpretation, and quite frankly, yours is the odd one out. Everybody else agrees oevrwhelmingly that "staging" is about ugly and not-up-to-snuff drivers. So you can talk about your 'right' to interpret things all you want, but what's the point? If others haev the same right (which presumably even you agree they do), then if people think a driver is ugly and needs to be in staging, what makes _your_ right so special? As mentioned earlier, I don't personally care about this driver, but I do care about your behavior. You can't just ignore other people if they say that a driver is too damn ugly. Linus