linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] IDE fixes

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Message-ID: <84144f020906071121k34d6d555i6332d49b0db0fac6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 7 Jun 2009 21:21:11 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] IDE fixes

Hi Bartlomiej,

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<bzolnier@...il.com> 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
>> <bzolnier@...il.com> 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
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