Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750873AbVIVSIe (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:08:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750920AbVIVSIe (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:08:34 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55755 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873AbVIVSId (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:08:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:08:16 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Jens Axboe , Joshua Kwan , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? Message-ID: <20050922180816.GA2041@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Jens Axboe , Joshua Kwan , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton References: <433104E0.4090308@triplehelix.org> <433221A1.5000600@pobox.com> <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> <1127398679.18840.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050922135607.GK4262@suse.de> <1127399409.18840.95.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4332F085.9060909@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1074 Lines: 24 On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:04:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why not just send it to me and Andrew and get it merged. > > The way we keep everybody honest (me, maintainers, and random developers) > is with this concept called "open source", which means that anybody can > fix a problem, and you don't need to wait for the "vendor". > > Yes, it's good to go through channels, but when that doesn't work, it's > good to go _past_ them too. Umm, no one tried. The last time it came up there was a healthy discussion, but it stopped somewhere and no one followed up. There were two sets of patches from Jens and James and we need to arrive somewhere in the middle. That's exactly what I said above, people should stop bitching and bring the patch up again - I'm pretty sure we'll find an acceptable variant real soon. - 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/