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Hi!

> > Any updates on that?
> >=20
> > I don't believe Torsten's concerns are simply about *applying* patches
> > but more about these long periods of radio silence. That kills
>=20
> Exactly. I could live with replies in the style of "old" Linus like:
> "Your code is crap, because it does X and Y". Then I knew how to
> proceed. But this extended silence slows things down a lot.

Well... you know. We now have code of conflict, so maintainers are not
supposed to tell submitters that their code is ****. So... you get
silence.
								Pavel
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