Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932083AbWBRRF7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:05:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932084AbWBRRF7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:05:59 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:65472 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932083AbWBRRF6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:05:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device. From: Arjan van de Ven To: Roland Dreier 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 In-Reply-To: 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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:02:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1140282163.6514.7.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: 1040 Lines: 24 On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 08:32 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > 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. It's a concern at least; if they're just having trouble posting really big files that's one thing.. if they're not allowed to post at all that's another. > 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? And can you respond to questions and user questions on lkml? - 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/