linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.25-rc1

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Message-Id: <1202955053.3109.104.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:10:53 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.25-rc1


On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 17:22 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:11:53 -0600
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:16 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > kill-warnings-in-mptbaseh-on-parisc64.patch
> > 
> > >   Warning fixes.
> > 
> > Not sure ... LSI is supposed to be processing this.
> 
> James, please don't push build warning fixes and the like back to the
> driver maintainers.
> 
> This is your domain as SCSI maintainer, and you should integrate these
> kinds of things directly and as promptly as possible.
> 
> This is doubly true if the "driver maintainer" can't be bothered
> to ACK or fixup the patch for months.
> 
> Otherwise this kind of stuff rots, and diligent people like Andrew
> (and the patch submitter, whoever that might be) get extremely
> frustrated.

LSI did ask to merge through their patch process, but I agree this one's
been hanging around for a bit long.

James


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