From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262391AbUENTwW (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 15:52:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262418AbUENTwW (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 15:52:22 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:50704 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262391AbUENTwP (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 15:52:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 20:52:12 +0100 From: Russell King To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Marc Singer , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: arm-lh7a40x IDE support in 2.6.6 Message-ID: <20040514205212.A19539@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Marc Singer , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200405141840.04401.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040514172656.GA18884@buici.com> <200405142045.51875.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200405142045.51875.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>; from B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl on Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:45:51PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:45:51PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Friday 14 of May 2004 19:26, Marc Singer wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:40:04PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > I was just porting my patches killing for > > > ARM to 2.6.6 when noticed that more work is needed now. :-( > > > > > > arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/ide-lpd7a40x.c > > > include/asm-arm/arch-lh7a40x/ide.h > > > > > > Why it couldn't be done in drivers/ide/arm > > > (as discussed on linux-ide)? > > > > Your response took look enough for me to switch to another job. I > > haven't yet returned to dealing with this. > > Yes, it took too long. > > Anyway, pushing non-working code to mainline is a bad thing > (I can show some proofs for this statement). It was a necessary step. To get around this, we're going to ask people to submit new machine support on a file by file basis, and that's just not practical, and you can't expect me to be able to track _every_ _single_ fscking change to the kernel, and pick up every one in a review. There will always be a delay between changes happening between two people and we have to live with it. Not everyone works on Linus' latest kernel. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core