From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754622Ab2AHVnT (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:43:19 -0500 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:53546 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754504Ab2AHVnT (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:43:19 -0500 Message-ID: <1326058974.5372.4.camel@joe2Laptop> Subject: Re: Please merge two small bug fix patches from linux-next From: Joe Perches To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jesper Juhl , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , James Bottomley , Al Viro , Eric Paris Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:42:54 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 13:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Below are two patches that have been in linux-next for ages (via akpm's > > tree). They are prette simple, straight-up, bug fixes. They have been > > submitted to maintainers multiple times over (IIRC at least the past > > year), but for some reason the maintainers seem uninterested in picking > > them up (or even responding to them). [] > they seem to have Andrew's sign-off, so I'd have expected them to > come through Andew. What's up? >>From my perspective, the issue lies with James' apparent desire to keep scsi tree changes as close to zero as possible. Many obvious corrections to scsi defects have gone unapplied.