Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751195AbWBRMcl (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:32:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751184AbWBRMcl (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:32:41 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:1260 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751195AbWBRMck (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:32:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device. From: Arjan van de Ven To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Roland Dreier , Greg KH , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, openib-general@openib.org, SCHICKHJ@de.ibm.com, RAISCH@de.ibm.com, HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com, MEDER@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20060218122631.GA30535@granada.merseine.nu> References: <20060218005532.13620.79663.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20060218005707.13620.20538.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20060218015808.GB17653@kroah.com> <20060218122011.GE911@infradead.org> <20060218122631.GA30535@granada.merseine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:32:35 +0100 Message-Id: <1140265955.4035.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 1158 Lines: 26 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.... - 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/