From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263632AbTDIRYQ (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:24:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263635AbTDIRYQ (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:24:16 -0400 Received: from magic-mail.adaptec.com ([208.236.45.100]:30345 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263632AbTDIRYP (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:24:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:34:01 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs" To: Alan Cox , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7* claims all checked EISA io ranges (was: [MAILER-DAEMON@rumms.u Message-ID: <194120000.1049909641@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <1049886804.9901.19.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <200304082124_MC3-1-3399-FBD0@compuserve.com> <1049886804.9901.19.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Mer, 2003-04-09 at 02:21, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> And your code goes for long periods of time without merging good fixes, >> like this one (from 2.4.20): > > Which is one reason Justin's patches don't get merged. They are giant > changes which back out other clear corrections. This tells me two things: 1) You don't trust maintainers. If a maintainer can't make large changes, who can? 2) When a maintainer makes a mistake (fails to integrate a good change, or introduces a bug), the maintainers changes are simply dropped rather then notify (either politely or not I don't much care) the maintainer of his/her mistake. Neither of the above applied to integration of the aic79xx driver into the 2.4.X tree, but it still took something like 8 months. There must be a better way. -- Justin