Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755617AbXHBWxw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:53:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755652AbXHBWxk (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:53:40 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:41263 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754875AbXHBWxj (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:53:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:53:37 -0500 To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Andrew Morton , James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, willy@debian.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH]: PCI Error Recovery: Symbios SCSI device driver Message-ID: <20070802225337.GK26837@austin.ibm.com> References: <20070702183917.GJ4501@austin.ibm.com> <20070705112838.2d8c959b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070705185406.GA3527@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070705185406.GA3527@parisc-linux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1326 Lines: 31 On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:54:06PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:28:38AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Well you've sent it a couple of times, and I've sent it in five more times > > over the past year. Once we were told "awaiting maintainer ack". > > > > This situation is fairly stupid. How about we make you the maintainer? > > Last time I looked at it, I still wasn't comfortable with it. I'm going > to look at it again. Please do. Its burning the proverbial hole in my pocket; I'd really like to get this off my list of things I worry about. > I'm fairly sure Linas doesn't want to be the sym2 maintainer. It's > still an ugly pile of junk that needs cleaning up. Heh. I have no difficulty living with ugly code: its actually a great excuse to fix things instead of doing "real work" :-) Rather, the menagerie of hardware I have access to is constantly changing; I don't have a symbios card just right now, and it might take a few days to even find someone who did. Which is an incredibly unpleasent, unrewarding activity. --linas - 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/