From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755761AbXKEXRY (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:17:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754740AbXKEXRO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:17:14 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:37046 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754545AbXKEXRN (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:17:13 -0500 Message-ID: <472FA475.5030106@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:17:09 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] Add and use media change notification References: <20071104150711.GA29087@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> The end to CD-ROM polling... newer SATA ATAPI hardware will emit >> 'asynchronous notification' events when media is changed. This adds >> support. > > I *really* didn't want to pull this. > > Not only is it after the -rc1 period, but I also think you pushed this ina > really offensive manner, and I don't like how you and James have made this > whole thing personal. You guys need to sort it out, and there is no way > you can blame James for all your troubles, since I've heard the same kind > of complaints about every single maintainer out there (including you) > about some driver or other infrastructure issue. > > So I'm unhappy about pulling this. > > That said, I did finally decide to just pull it. Partly because the > concept apparently has been in -mm for a while anyway (even if the final > patch has not - but the patch itself isn't that large, I'd worry more > about thngs like certain hardware simply not doing things right), but > mostly because I hate it when others hold up driver features, and I > decided that in this case this really is something that is better done > earlier rather than later, to get exposure as soon as possible. > > But I really think you need to lay off James, and help him rather than > make every single complaint a big flame-war! > > Please, Jeff? Fair enough... Jeff