Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756727AbXJXTJm (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:09:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753265AbXJXTJd (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:09:33 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:53257 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753155AbXJXTJc (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:09:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:09:14 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: James Bottomley , David Miller , Jeff Garzik , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI pieces for the merge window Message-Id: <20071024120914.180682a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <471E6313.1040704@garzik.org> <1193174424.3434.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <471E707B.1020505@garzik.org> <20071023.153635.21595587.davem@davemloft.net> <1193232490.3396.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1561 Lines: 31 On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > OK, so it's no secret that I'm the last of the subsystem maintainers > > whose day job isn't working on the linux kernel. If you want a full > > time person, who did you have in mind? > > Quite frankly, at least for me personally, what I would rather have (in > general: this is really not at all SCSI-specific in any way, shape, or > form, and not directed at James!) is a less rigid maintainership > structure. > > Let's face it, we are *all* likely to be overworked at different times, > and even when not overworked, it's just the fact that people need to take > a breather etc. And there is seldom - if ever - a very strong argument for > having one person per subsystem. Am OK with all of that, but with a rider. It would make my life even more miserable if there was a (say) git-scsi-tweedledee and a git-scsi-tweedledum. We already have too much out-of-scope code turning up in the git trees and having two trees explicitly modifying the same subsystem would hurt. It's also bad from an engineering POV: there's a decent chance that when combined, they just won't work. So Tweedledee and Tweedledum should both commit to the same tree, please. - 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/