linux-kernel - Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-26

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Message-ID: <1ba2fa240808270442k20f70e69n6a6203d236376f5@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:42:43 +0300
From:	"Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@...il.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	holtmann@...ux.intel.com, linville@...driver.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-26

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:32 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:05:23 +0300
>
>> There is a central problem here, since I cannot really adjust driver
>> development progress from obvious reason with Linux merging window.
>
> Indeed, that's exactly what your core problem is.
>
> You think it's OK to contaminate upstream just because of the
> way you have choosen to maintain your driver.
>

I don't think I contaminate upstream I'm just trying to fix bugs so
people can work with the HW.

> Well guess what, it's not OK to do that, and it's absolutely not our
> problem that you choose to do your development in the most anti-social
> way possible wrt. upstream.
>
> Anyways, keep defending yourself.

I'm not defending myself I'm explaining myself.

> If you persist, I can certainly make things _really_ easy, such that
> if there isn't a regression list entry for the bug you are fixing and
> it isn't mentioned explicitly in your commit message, I simply will
> refuse to take your changes outside of the merge window.
>
> It's that simple.
>
> Would you like things to work that way, where I'm a hard ass, or would
> you like to stop defending yourself endlessly, and instead start to be
> reasonable?

I'm not sure why you are so militant, you cut out form my email sentences
like 'Yes' and 'Understood'
Is this personal ?

Tomas
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