Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 1998 01:46:39 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c |
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:35:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
I'm still open to bug fixes, but they had better not be "go look at vger, some of the stuff there is bug-fixes". Anybody who thinks that that kind of approach works is pretty misguided.
No one is telling you that, _everyone_ who maintains the video driver layer is telling you "look at Martins patch", nothing more. If you continually ignore him, you are the roadblock, plain and simple. So instead of being a roadblock, please express your grievences about Martin's attempt to merge things with you.
I repeat "There is nothing else in the VGER tree" that you won't take "as is" other than this video patch. The rest is "port stuff" that doesn't touch any Intel or generic code.
Stop pointing fingers towards "vger", people are sending you patches, continually, and are being ignored and not being told why _even_ after you had told them you would accept such a patch for the video subsystem.
(The missing piece of this whole puzzle, which Linus is conveniently not mentioning, is that a month or so ago he told Martin in email that he would take _one_ more large video driver subsystem patch to get the updated drivers and bug fixes in, and only one. Now, he is not living up to his word.)
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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