Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932490AbVIHA4a (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:56:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932496AbVIHA43 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:56:29 -0400 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:24722 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932490AbVIHA43 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:56:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI merge for 2.6.13 From: James Bottomley To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List , Jens Axboe , Greg KH In-Reply-To: References: <1126053452.5012.28.camel@mulgrave> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:56:19 -0500 Message-Id: <1126140979.4823.65.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1358 Lines: 31 On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Quite frankly, what's the point in asking people to pull a tree that is > > known to not compile? > > Btw, I see the patch that is supposed to fix it, but I'm in no position to > know whether it's even acceptable to basically double the size of the > "struct klist", for example. There may be a good reason why Greg hasn't > been merging the klist stuff, and just assuming that they are merged not > only screws up everybody down-stream, it's not necessarily valid in the > first place. > > In other words, I think I will have to just revert the commit that > introduces this bogus "assume a patch that wasn't merged" (commit ID > 2b7d6a8cb9718fc1d9e826201b64909c44a915f4) for now. > > And once more strongly complain about it getting sent to me in the first > place since it was known to not even compile. He's been on holiday, but he did send me a sign off for that particular patch so I could put it through the SCSI tree. However, because Andrew sent you the patch before I could do this, there didn't seem to be any necessity ... James - 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/