From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262838AbUBNRHj (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:07:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262794AbUBNRGS (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:06:18 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([212.34.189.10]:43226 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262686AbUBNRGJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:06:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:06:00 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , jsimmons@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] back out fbdev sysfs support Message-ID: <20040214170600.GA16147@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , jsimmons@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040214165037.GA15985@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -4.901 () BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:02:12AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Hey, that's not what I meant. Sorry for the silly language. I'm the last one to argue in favour of a single big diff. But all the driver fixes are easily separatable, in fact benh probably still has all the individual diffs for all the mac drivers. What I meant is that the FB maintainer should try to get the existing fixes merged before adding dubious features.