Re: [PATCH 00/86] PATA fixes

david
2009-12-12T02:02:52Z

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> On Thursday 03 December 2009 09:39:39 pm Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> On 12/03/2009 03:26 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>> On Thursday 03 December 2009 09:11:19 pm Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>> On 12/03/2009 02:45 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:53:59 pm Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/03/2009 07:39 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thursday 03 December 2009 09:07:41 am Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>>>>>> The merge window is upon us, which by strict rules means that anything
>>>>>>>> not already in libata-dev.git#upstream needs to wait until 2.6.34.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However, bug fixes and the like should definitely be in 2.6.33.
>>>>>>>> ->init_host is definitely 2.6.34 material. Some of the other stuff
>>>>>>>> could go either way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you would like to apply some of my patches to 2.6.33 you are more than
>>>>>>> welcome to do it. I can even prepare separate git tree with specific changes
>>>>>>> to make it easier for you once you tell me which changes you would like to
>>>>>>> see in it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK, great.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you prepare a patchset containing only fixes? Comment-only changes
>>>>>> are acceptable too. Trivial changes too, if they are extremely trivial :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Include nothing that adds features, removes or unifies drivers, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since this is pretty high-level description and some changes fall into
>>>>> many categories at once (i.e. addition of proper PCI Power Management
>>>>> handling could be considered both as a fix and as a feature) I prepared
>>>>> a rather conservative set of changes (which means that unfortunately
>>>>> it misses many enhancements available in my tree):
>>>>>
>>>>>> Please do it in standard kernel submit form, which is either
>>>>>> (a) repost the patches (yes, again) being submitted for 2.6.33, or
>>>>>> (b) a standard git pull request, which includes shortlog, diffstat, and
>>>>>> all-in-one diff.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for the detailed explanation of the standard kernel submit
>>>>> form (I wonder how would I know this otherwise :) but the thing is that
>>>>> at the current moment I'm not submitting anything to the upstream.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, that explains my confusion, then. I had thought you intended to get
>>>> this stuff upstream, and into users' hands.
>>>
>>> Interesting argument but the vast majority of users use distribution kernels
>>> which are not upstream and I doubt that any self-respecting distribution would
>>> miss such amount of fixes.
>>
>> Interesting argument, but applied across 1000+ developers this is
>> clearly an unscalable development model for distributions. Thus,
>
> Interesting that you have brought distributions' convenience before
> non-distribution developers' one.

and you are leaving those of us who use kernel.org out in the cold
(forcing all non-distribution users to go through all the work that Jeff
described)

I'm not sure who you see as benifiting from this approach.

David Lang