From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761080AbXGESaB (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:30:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759484AbXGES3w (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:29:52 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:41650 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756948AbXGES3v (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:29:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:28:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Cc: James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, matthew@wil.cx, willy@debian.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH]: PCI Error Recovery: Symbios SCSI device driver Message-Id: <20070705112838.2d8c959b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070702183917.GJ4501@austin.ibm.com> References: <20070702183917.GJ4501@austin.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 13:39:17 -0500 linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) wrote: > > Various PCI bus errors can be signaled by newer PCI controllers. > This patch adds the PCI error recovery callbacks to the Symbios > SCSI device driver. The patch has been tested, and appears to > work well. > yup, this is identical to -mm's pci-error-recovery-symbios-scsi-base-support.patch What is the status of ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/broken-out/pci-error-recovery-symbios-scsi-first-failure.patch? > > ---- > > Hi, > > This patch has been bouncing around for a long time, and has made > appearences in various -mm trees since 2.6.something-teen. However, > it has never made it into mainline, and I'm starting to get concerned > that it will miss 2.6.23 as well. Well you've sent it a couple of times, and I've sent it in five more times over the past year. Once we were told "awaiting maintainer ack". This situation is fairly stupid. How about we make you the maintainer?