linux-kernel - Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

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Message-Id: <20080128185701.752fe2c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:57:01 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:

> > afaik these patches have been tested by nobody except thyself?
> 
> I've tested them myself, then I sent them to the perf team who ran the
> (4 hour long) benchmark, and they reported success.  As with many patches
> these days, they sank into a pit of indifference.

I like to think that's because everyone is all fired up about bugfixes and
the regression reports.  heh.

It's a simple matter for me to add another git tree, which gets things a
bit more exposure.

>  Perhaps I need to
> take a leaf from my former government's book and sex up my patch
> descriptions a bit.

Well these two pulls came with effectively no description at all.  Put
yourself in Linus's position...

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