From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:26:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:26:08 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:36882 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:26:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 00:25:59 +0100 From: Russell King To: Martin Dalecki Cc: James Simmons , Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.19 Message-ID: <20020530002559.G30585@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020529211702.E30585@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20020529214739.F30585@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <3CF554A1.4090607@evision-ventures.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:22:25AM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Dear Russell why don't you just abuse Linus as a spinlock for this kind > of synchronization its his job. No need to get angry at this. > Hey it's developement series time... The fundamental point I'm making is people shouldn't go around taking changes randomly from maintainers trees, and believing that they know far better than the maintainer what they're doing, especially when they don't have the hardware to even try it out, and go submitting these changes to Linus without even asking about it first... after the maintainer has been very careful and explicitly not submitted the change because they have very good reasons not to. What if I were to take, say, Mochel's experimental tree and send some random alpha code to Linus? Let anarchy rule! -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html