From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261345AbVARQqW (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:46:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261350AbVARQqW (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:46:22 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:45788 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261345AbVARQkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:40:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:40:03 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Greg KH Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: PCI patches not being reviewed Message-ID: <20050118164002.GR30982@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20050118022031.GL30982@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050118062721.GA8951@kroah.com> <20050118122126.GM30982@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050118162908.GA12553@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050118162908.GA12553@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:29:08AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:21:26PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Yes, the PCI Express bridge driver is quite buggy. > > It was posted a number of times to lkml in December, and it was > commented on by a few different people, and the patch went through a few > different revisions. It also was in the -mm tree for awhile. But since it didn't go to the linux-pci mailing list, I never saw it. So I never reviewed it. > > I also think it's the wrong approach to take -- weren't you working on > > a generic way to have multiple drivers attach to the same device? > > That's what the patch allows to happen. I think it's the right > approach, what do you think it should do? Ah, I thought you were talking about something for the generic device model. If you don't have that in mind, then a multiplexing driver is probably the right way to do it. > > That would certainly help; I'm not sure how anyone has time to read > > linux-kernel. Here's a patch: > > Hm, in sleeping on it, I think I'll leave it, as it's worked out just > fine for me for the past 2+ years I've been the PCI maintainer, this has > been the first it has come up. Well, no, I mentioned it to you before, you said you'd do something about it, and nothing happened. Hence me now talking to you in public. > But if it really annoys you, how about > just adding another L: entry for it, so people can choose where they > want to go? That doesn't make much sense. Either you want things to be reviewed or you don't. If you want them reviewed, you send them to linux-pci. Why should it be any different from linux-scsi, linux-ide, netdev or linux-mm? > Oh, and you forgot the Signed-off-by: line :) Do you remember what Signed-off-by is for? Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.0 By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; or (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it. What license is MAINTAINERS under? -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain