Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3 | | From | James Bottomley <> | | Date | Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:04:04 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > Could I remind you that at the last kernel summit I was the one > > advocating for holding drivers out of tree until they met our standards > > and you were the one who told me not to do this ... Jon even captured > > it: > > What the hell is wrong with you? > > You're bringing up total red herrings that have nothing to do with > anything. > > My point is: > - that's not just another driver. That's FIFTY THOUSANDS LINES OF > LARGELY INFRASTRUCTURE CRAP. > > - I'm not arguing that we shouldn't merge the driver > > - I'm arguing that you damn well should have used the merge window for > something like this! > > What part of "it's already -rc3, and you're pushing 50kloc of crap that > almost nobody will care about" can you not understand? > > What part of "merge window" do you have issues with?
OK, you're saying the merge window exemption should only apply to drivers which meet our coding standards.
That's fine, I can live with that ... and that's how we'll operate in future.
> What part of "sure, I'll take new drivers after the merge window, but COME > &*^@ ON!" do you have trouble understanding?
What does the ^@ mean again?
> Stop bringing up totally irrelevant crap.
James
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