To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
       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.
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	<20060218122011.GE911@infradead.org>
	<20060218122631.GA30535@granada.merseine.nu>
	<1140265955.4035.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
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")
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    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
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