From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263568AbUBNXFQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:05:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263595AbUBNXFP (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:05:15 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:44188 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263568AbUBNXFH (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:05:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] back out fbdev sysfs support From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , James Simmons , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: References: <20040214165037.GA15985@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1076799884.4199.37.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:04:45 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 04:02, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > > James, what about pushing the 2GB worth of fbdev driver fixes in your > > tree to Linus so people actually get working fb support again instead > > of adding new holes? > > Sorry, but at this point I WOULD NOT EVEN TAKE IT ANY MORE. > > That's just how I work: if somebody maintains his own tree and builds up a > lot of patches, that's _his_ problem. I'm not going to replace things > totally unless there is some really fundamental reason I would have to. > And quite frankly, the most common "fundamental reason" is that the > maintainer has not done his job. > > I want controlled patches that do one thing at a time. Not a 2GB untested > dump. I'll send you/andrew individually the drivers I control and the ones I already fixed in james tree (5 or 6 drivers) James: The fbcon & cursor changes must get in asap. There are races that I fixed, without the changes, those races will be in 2.6.3. Ben.