Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752507AbaBKDf7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:35:59 -0500 Received: from mail-ig0-f180.google.com ([209.85.213.180]:49884 "EHLO mail-ig0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752232AbaBKDfm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:35:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1392045953-26596-1-git-send-email-lpapp@kde.org> <20140210160842.GB26997@lee--X1> <20140210173811.04ba5964@endymion.delvare> <20140210105346.14592yef0najhyio@67.228.131.205> <20140210231031.GA5857@roeck-us.net> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:35:41 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3SbMf_AbHFyfFHSxWVj4dfZqtyk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (max6650) Rename the device ids to contain the hwmon suffix From: Laszlo Papp To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Jean Delvare , Lee Jones , LKML , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 06:59:55PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> I think I'll let Jean handle this one. > > Guys, please be a bit more definite. > > We should get over this long ping-pong game. It has been clearly > stated that either way is fine, and there was no objection for months > to either way either, and now the feature is just not moving forward. > This is the first time I have this sorrow experience that I am having > here in hwmon, unfortunately. A lot of effort spent, and nothing got > done. > > As I said before, disagreeing is fine and natural. What is not fine is > wasting people's time for months and not making it clear what the > hwmon maintainers want, and months later after the work, the opposite > is claimed than before. > > I am sorry if it sounds harsh, but currently this is how I see the > situation. If the MFD solution gets rejected, I consider it a huge > maintainer mistake since both of you were involved, and have never > ever spoken up for months that this would not be acceptable. In fact, > as quoted earlier in this thread, the opposite had been said. > > I would like to get over the hwmon situation as soon as possible, so > please guys kindly advise what you would *really* like to see. I do > not really mind who makes the decision, but rejecting months of work > due to miscommunication is still better than continuing the same! (Alternatively, who is the higher-level decision maker over the drivers (and hence driver subsystem maintainers) to ask for making a final decision if you cannot make it? I would hope for this being the last resort, but there is a point where it is necessary to remain productive, in my opinion.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/