Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:40:38 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] STAGING fixes and new drivers for 2.6.35-git |
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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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