Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:36783 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967774AbXEHVAU (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 17:00:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4640E4CE.1030506@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 16:59:58 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Matt Mackall , "John W. Linville" , Dan Williams , Christoph Hellwig , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6) References: <20070227205649.GH5826@tuxdriver.com> <45E8CF5E.5090305@garzik.org> <20070303052140.GA31075@infradead.org> <20070507104117.GA31601@infradead.org> <1178539423.3032.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070507141143.GB5125@tuxdriver.com> <463F443A.5000306@garzik.org> <20070508061255.GT11166@waste.org> <464034C2.3030007@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <464034C2.3030007@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > Two things on top of a lot of people's pet peeves list are lack of > good review bandwidth, and poor driver code! So it is sad this was > merged without Christoph's comments being addressed. "it works for > me, we can fix it later" is probably a big reason for quality > problems of some parts of the kernel. > > As for Christoph's idea of perfection... it usually isn't a bad > thing. And he is quite reasonable if you explain your good reason > to disagree or do something differently. The attitude of ignoring > comments can be really demotivating for a reviewer. I guess it's a good thing that the maintainer was not ignoring the review comments, then... (please review the thread before replying, next time) Jeff