Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932104AbWBRSPc (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:15:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932106AbWBRSPc (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:15:32 -0500 Received: from dsl093-040-174.pdx1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.40.174]:64742 "EHLO aria.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932104AbWBRSPb (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:15:31 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:15:09 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Roland Dreier Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Muli Ben-Yehuda , Christoph Hellwig , 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. Message-ID: <20060218181509.GA892@kroah.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1340 Lines: 29 On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:32:28AM -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. 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. Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different from posting to lkml in public. In fact, it looks like the svn tree is so far ahead of the in-kernel stuff, that most people are just using it instead of the in-kernel code. I know at least one company has asked a distro to just accept the svn snapshot over the in-kernel IB code, which makes me wonder if the in-kernel stuff is even useful to people? Why have it, if companies insist on using the out-of-tree stuff instead? thanks, greg k-h - 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/