Re: [tip:x86/cleanups] x86: Clean up mtrr/cleanup.c

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 22:11 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Jaswinder,
> 
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 14:59 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > What's with the attitude? It's perfectly okay for a commiter to change
> > > the patch as long as it's mentioned in the changelog. And that's
> > > usually much faster to do that for minor issues rather than ping the
> > > original submitter and wait for a resend.
> > > 
> > 
> > I was also thankful to him but then he send me a long email and blamed
> > me that I wasted his 6 hours to do further cleanup and solve bugs and
> > other irrelevant things.
> 
> Err, you managed to create _three_ bugs in your trivial cleanup
> patches and that's not irrelevant at all. That's a sign of sloppiness
> and a pretty good reason not to trust any of your patches at all.
> 
> > And told me to not send further patches otherwise he will ignore it.
> 
> Right, and he is correct about that. This is not the first time and
> you have been asked to be more careful with your patches several times
> in the last months. It's _you_ who is not listening and not caring at
> all.
> 

where is the list of bugs, I do not want to hear blah-blah.

> > He is doing mistakes and blaming others and misusing maintainer-ship.
> 
> Ingo did clean up _your_ mess and there was no mistake at all. He
> blames _you_ correctly that _your_ trivial patches are buggy.
> 

again blah-blah, where is the bug list.

> There is no misuse at all. Ingo is doing what a responsible maintainer
> does: reviewing patches and fixing them up when necessary. 
> 

Then he should do his work, no need to blame others.

> His decision not to take any more cleanup patches from you is just the
> result of your unwillingness to listen and to react on the requests
> which were made to you from Ingo, myself and others.
> 

I even do not want to do further clean-ups, because it is never ending
task and it is totally personnel flavor.

Thanks,
--
JSR