From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755645AbZFGSVV (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:21:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753901AbZFGSVL (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:21:11 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:64628 "EHLO mail-fx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752520AbZFGSVK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:21:10 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=VFdwa3FkeqxDQTxErqcevvzHxRdePnWjdxyGB1sr1aB9WQRpQ+bkWDKSX743MkdOpP 7R7ClFMGPJ6Gn+7zc05R2pMJKbWRQeGp26hVaAzQFRjixBYo1b0aWpCHHSaSk7XoBJv/ x6NA2nijwa6KIwHN2kB01vr0OJv2q7+TXsDd4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200906071955.42378.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200906071444.33047.bzolnier@gmail.com> <200906071744.23629.bzolnier@gmail.com> <84144f020906070954p54cdfee4y62a51795be10b0d0@mail.gmail.com> <200906071955.42378.bzolnier@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 21:21:11 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: d9ab14bf1b9e7103 Message-ID: <84144f020906071121k34d6d555i6332d49b0db0fac6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [git pull] IDE fixes From: Pekka Enberg To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: James Bottomley , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Stephen Rothwell , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Bartlomiej, On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 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 >> 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