linux-kernel - Re: Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6)

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Date:	Wed, 09 May 2007 09:31:31 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, marcelo@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re:
 Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6)

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>> Two things on top of a lot of people's pet peeves list are lack of
>> good review bandwidth, and poor driver code! So it is sad this was
>> merged without Christoph's comments being addressed. "it works for
>> me, we can fix it later" is probably a big reason for quality
>> problems of some parts of the kernel.
>>
>> As for Christoph's idea of perfection... it usually isn't a bad
>> thing. And he is quite reasonable if you explain your good reason
>> to disagree or do something differently. The attitude of ignoring
>> comments can be really demotivating for a reviewer.
> 
> 
> I guess it's a good thing that the maintainer was not ignoring the 
> review comments, then...

My rant was not directed at the driver author...

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