From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765013AbYBNCLR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:11:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751814AbYBNCLA (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:11:00 -0500 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:60445 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751683AbYBNCK7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:10:59 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.25-rc1 From: James Bottomley To: David Miller Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080213.172251.249294145.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1202947364.3109.96.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080213161643.65a5a779.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1202951513.3109.101.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080213.172251.249294145.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:10:53 -0600 Message-Id: <1202955053.3109.104.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 17:22 -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: James Bottomley > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:11:53 -0600 > > > > > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:16 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > kill-warnings-in-mptbaseh-on-parisc64.patch > > > > > Warning fixes. > > > > Not sure ... LSI is supposed to be processing this. > > James, please don't push build warning fixes and the like back to the > driver maintainers. > > This is your domain as SCSI maintainer, and you should integrate these > kinds of things directly and as promptly as possible. > > This is doubly true if the "driver maintainer" can't be bothered > to ACK or fixup the patch for months. > > Otherwise this kind of stuff rots, and diligent people like Andrew > (and the patch submitter, whoever that might be) get extremely > frustrated. LSI did ask to merge through their patch process, but I agree this one's been hanging around for a bit long. James