Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device.
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
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       openib-general@openib.org, SCHICKHJ@de.ibm.com, RAISCH@de.ibm.com,
       HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com, MEDER@de.ibm.com
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:32:35 +0100
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On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:26 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:20:11PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > > Well, the eHCA guys tell me that they can't post patches to lkml.
> > 
> > Then they lie.  And not posting to lkml is a good reason not to merge
> > an otherwise perfect driver.  (which this one is far from)
> 
> I don't speak for IBM or the authors, but there are perfectly
> reasonable reasons to ask someone else to post a patch on your behalf
> - including but not limited to to only being able to use Lotus Notes
> with one's IBM email. I'm sure you've all seen the travesties that
> Notes inflicts on inline patches.

there are ways around that with webmail etc.

The bigger issue is: if people can't be bothered to do those steps, why
would they be bothered to do this for maintenance and bugfixes etc etc?
Basically it's now already a de-facto unmaintained driver....


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