From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261288AbVGLJT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:19:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261292AbVGLJTZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:19:25 -0400 Received: from mailgw.voltaire.com ([212.143.27.70]:10454 "EHLO mailgw.voltaire.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261288AbVGLJSu (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:18:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/29v2] InfiniBand core update From: Hal Rosenstock To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org, rolandd@cisco.com In-Reply-To: <20050711.201225.34760317.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1121110249.4389.4984.camel@hal.voltaire.com> <20050711170548.31605e23.akpm@osdl.org> <1121136330.4389.5093.camel@hal.voltaire.com> <20050711.201225.34760317.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1121159462.4389.5108.camel@hal.voltaire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 12 Jul 2005 05:11:03 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:12, David S. Miller wrote: > Please acknowledge that you understand how inappropriate > and problem causing your huge patch bomb was today to this > mailing list. > > It is nearly 8 hours later, and vger.kernel.org is still > trying mightily to spit out all of your patches to the > 5000+ people subscribed to linux-kernel. > > There is about ~6 hour posting latency as a result of all > of this. I understand the problem it caused. The MAD layer of InfiniBand was quite a bit behind and we wanted to catch up. I tried to make them in smaller manageable pieces and that was why there were so many patches in the series. In the future, I will endeavor to make the changes smaller. Sorry for the problems this caused. -- Hal