Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/staging/dt3155: Integrate 3 badly styled files into 1 clean file

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:33:25AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 12:12 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:00:30 PDT, Joe Perches said:
> > > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 22:52 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > I seem to be learning that you little taste.
> > > > -ENOPARSE
> > > 
> > > Choosing competing patches based on date received
> > > order not quality is poor taste.
> > 
> > So you're saying when Greg gets a somewhat ugly but passable patch 2 weeks ago,
> > he's supposed to *just know* that you'll be submitting a possibly better one 2
> > weeks later and wait for it to show up?
> 
> No, I'm saying that when Greg gets multiple
> patches for the same module and doesn't act on
> any of them for several weeks, (in this case
> one 6 weeks ago, and two others 4 weeks ago)
> he should select the better patches, not just
> apply the first one in chronological order.

In this case, I _did_ select the best patches.  Your "do it all in one
patch" was not acceptable, especially as others sent small,
do-one-thing, type patches.

I'm sorry you don't agree with this decision, but that was my call.

thanks,

greg k-h