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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:26:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
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        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Dag Brattli <dagb@fast.no>
Subject: Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status
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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> 
> Like what? I'm not sure what you're saying here. It seems that the pople
> writing the IrDA code have gotten no feedback from you as to why their
> patch is never accepted -- could you clarify?

Just to clarify.

The ONLY message from the IrDA people I've gotten during the last few
weeks has been a SINGLE email from Dag Brattli, with a 330kB patch.

The whole, full, unabridged explanation for those 330kB of patches:

>> Hello Linus,
>> 
>> Here is the latest IrDA patch for Linux-2.4.0-test10. 
>> 
>> Short summary: 
>> 
>> o Fixes IrDA in 2.4
>> o Touches _no_ other files. 
>> 
>> Please apply! 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> Dag Brattli

That's it.

ONE message during the last month. ONE huge patch. From people who should
have known about 2.4.x being pending for some time. 

10,000+ lines of diff, with _no_ effort to split it up, or explain it with
anything but

	"o Fixes IrDA in 2.4"

and these people expect me to reply, sending long explanations of why I
don't like them? After they did nothing of the sort for the code they
claim should have been applied? Nada.

Get a grip. 

		Linus

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