Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:28:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:28:09 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:20742 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:28:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:32:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jens Axboe cc: martin@dalecki.de, Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.28 small REQ_SPECIAL abstraction In-Reply-To: <20020728212523.A3460@suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1279 Lines: 33 On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote: > > But the crap still got merged, sigh... Yet again an excellent point of > why stuff like this should go through the maintainer. Apparently Linus > blindly applies this stuff. Ehh, since there is no proactive maintainer for SCSI, I don't have much choice, do I? SCSI has been maintainerless for the last few years. Right now three people work on it to some degree (Doug Ledford, James Bottomley and you), but I don't get timely patches, and neither does apparently anybody else. Case in point: I was debugging some USB storage issues with Matthew Dharm yesterday, and he sent me patches to the SCSI subsystem that he claims were supposedly considered valid on the scsi mailing list back in May. Guess what? I've not seen the patches from any of the three people I consider closest to being maintainers. So your "should go through the maintainer" complaint is obviously a bunch of bull. Feel free to step up to the plate, but before you do, don't throw rocks in glass houses. Linus - 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/