Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:28:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:28:38 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:11529 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:28:33 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:33:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl cc: axboe@suse.de, , Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.28 small REQ_SPECIAL abstraction In-Reply-To: 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: 1876 Lines: 44 On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > In the absence of a single active maintainer, peer review is a > good alternative. I agree, but you still want to have somebody who actually steps up to the plate after the peer review has taken place, and sends me the patch.. And yes, if it's not one of the regular lieutenants, that does mean that me applying it will depend a bit more on just how much time I have. I would obviously prefer that the SCSI maintainer wouldn't necessarily sync directly with me, but with somebody I work with anyway - as long as it's reasonably timely. (The _good_ news is that there haven't actually been all that many reasons to maintain SCSI for a while - most of the maintenance has actually been due to the generic block layer changes, which Jens has naturally been very good about. The rest has _mostly_ been about updating specific drivers to the PCI DMA interface (and various one-liners for the block layer changes). > [By the way, have you asked these people to be maintainer? > Many people are too modest to suggest themselves, but will > accept when asked.] Jens is actually documented as being the SCSI maintainer, but that is probably because he is the block device maintainer and he ended up maintaining the more fundamental changes. I've seen James Bottomley more as the "change SCSI internals" guy, and Doug mentioned that he will have more time to work on 2.5.x not that long ago, so I do think all three consider themselves at least partial maintainers already. I certainly take patches from all three (see above on whether this is optimal for me, though ;) 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/