Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device. | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:32:35 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:26 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:20:11PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Well, the eHCA guys tell me that they can't post patches to lkml. > > > > Then they lie. And not posting to lkml is a good reason not to merge > > an otherwise perfect driver. (which this one is far from) > > I don't speak for IBM or the authors, but there are perfectly > reasonable reasons to ask someone else to post a patch on your behalf > - including but not limited to to only being able to use Lotus Notes > with one's IBM email. I'm sure you've all seen the travesties that > Notes inflicts on inline patches.
there are ways around that with webmail etc.
The bigger issue is: if people can't be bothered to do those steps, why would they be bothered to do this for maintenance and bugfixes etc etc? Basically it's now already a de-facto unmaintained driver....
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