Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932595AbVLQPvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:51:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932596AbVLQPvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:51:08 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-3-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.72]:46145 "EHLO sj-iport-3.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932595AbVLQPvG (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:51:06 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.99,263,1131350400"; d="scan'208"; a="380021118:sNHT30805374" To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] IB: PathScale InfiniPath driver X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20051031150618.627779f1.akpm@osdl.org> <200512161548.jRuyTS0HPMLd7V81@cisco.com> <20051217131614.GB13043@infradead.org> From: Roland Dreier Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:51:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20051217131614.GB13043@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:16:14 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Dec 2005 15:51:06.0047 (UTC) FILETIME=[B0BABCF0:01C60321] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 20 Christoph> Is there some political plot going where pathscale Christoph> folks are forcing you to send this out in this scheme? Christoph> Otherwise I couldn't explain the code quality Christoph> magnitudes lower than normally expected from your Christoph> merges. No political plot -- this posting was an RFC in the literal sense, with no expectation that the code is mergable as-is. I just want to get comments early so that we have a better idea of what needs to be fixed. For example, what's your feeling about sysctls in drivers? BTW, Pathscale people -- please respond to the comments that are made about your driver... - R. - 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/