Re: [git pull] drm

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:18:43 +0000

> However the fundamental point stands. The only people who can sign it off
> are the people who wrote it. Those are the rules. Red Hat didn't write the
> code, Red Hat cannot sign it off however much you rant at them. You also
> previously said you don't want to merge stuff when the authors don't want
> it merged.

I agree with a lot of what you say.

However, one point remains is that we were told, by Dave Airlie, that
they didn't want this code merged because the one person being paid to
work on it "would be overwhelmed" if the code went upstream.

I distinctly remember this being mentioned at the kernel summit.

And you know what?  That kind of excuse pisses me off too :-)