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SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] STAGING fixes and new drivers for 2.6.35-git
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:30:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Here are a number of bugfixes for the drivers/staging tree, as well as 3
> > new stand-alone drivers. The new drivers kind of obscure the diffstat
> > showing the other fixes due to their size.
>
> I pulled, but quite frankly, I don't want to see this kind of pull request
> again. There's just no _point_.
>
> I'll take new drivers outside the merge window, but there has to be some
> _reason_ for them. See the whole SCSI discussion a few merge windows ago.
> The new driver needs to improve the life of somebody to the point where I
> want to feel that there is a _reason_ for pulling it outside the merge
> window.

Fair enough, I shouldn't have added them to the request this time,
sorry.

> These drivers? Not so much. Not even f*cking close.
>
> In other words: tell me why the new drivers couldn't just have waited for
> the next merge window? Really?

They could have, sorry, will not do it again.

greg k-h


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