Re: [git pull] IDE fixes

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hi Bartlomiej,

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 June 2009 18:54:08 Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Hi Bartlomiej,
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
>> <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Honestly, this should be solved on technical basis by somebody posting
>> > needed libata patches instead of attempts to slow down IDE fixes.
>>
>> Nobody is "slowing down" IDE fixes here. Linus explicitly said that
>> -rc8 is the last release candidate and the next one is going to be
>> -final. There's absolutely _no way_ this series is appropriate at the
>> very end of a release cycle.
>
> My honest opinion is that it is as appropriate now as it will be 2.6.31.
>
> [ I'm still amazed by the amount of *completely* bogus reasons given for
>  not merging it. ]

I don't consider this a bogus reason at all:

 10 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

Just search the LKML archives for the amount of crap other subsystem
maintainers have gotten from Linus when they've tried to sneak
something like that after -rc4 or so.

                        Pekka