Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750801AbWBRQcg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:32:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751416AbWBRQcg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:32:36 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-3-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.72]:57486 "EHLO sj-iport-3.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801AbWBRQcf (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:32:35 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.02,127,1139212800"; d="scan'208"; a="407035255:sNHT35178626" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda , Christoph Hellwig , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device. X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information 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> <1140265955.4035.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> From: Roland Dreier Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:32:28 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1140265955.4035.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:32:35 +0100") 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: 18 Feb 2006 16:32:30.0346 (UTC) FILETIME=[E982EEA0:01C634A8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 21 Arjan> The bigger issue is: if people can't be bothered to do Arjan> those steps, why would they be bothered to do this for Arjan> maintenance and bugfixes etc etc? Basically it's now Arjan> already a de-facto unmaintained driver.... I don't think that's really a fair statement. The IBM people have been active and responsive in maintaining their driving in the openib.org svn tree. However, they asked me to post their driver for review because it would be difficult for them to do it. IBM people: can you clarify the restrictions you have? Why do you feel you can't post your own driver for review? Will you be able to post smaller patches to lkml in the future if the driver is merged? Thanks, Roland - 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/