Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:19:37 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Dropped patches |
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 02:18:35PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Well blame that on the folks that are not taking kernel code that will > > allow you to solve this problem. Linus is the number one offender. > > Linus is taking some patches and not others right now... so what? A > couple of my patches, isolated and clearly unrelated to bio and mochel's > driver work, made it in. Others got dropped.
Patches that are unrelated to bio and obviously correct shouldn't be dropped indefinately, or if they're being deferred, then $maintainer should say so.
> I do not believe this as a personal condemnation of your patches, or > bcrl's, or anyone else's. > > Patience is a virtue ;-) We have a long devel series in front of us > and we are only at the pre-patches to the FIRST 2.5.x release.
There is no reason not to have a 6 month devel cycle, and plenty of reasons in favour of it. If people aren't going to bother reviewing patches in a timely fashion, they should tell people when a good time to resend patches is. Given the whole vm fiasco in 2.4 (which is still a mess and falling apart for heavy loads) which stems from a lot of random direction with patches, I hope that some of the underlying problems will get fixed. But it really doesn't look that way.
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