linux-kernel - Re: memstick: Alternative approach to proposed fixes

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Message-ID: <882321.18802.qm@web37604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:20:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: memstick: Alternative approach to proposed fixes


> All the changes in this patchset are really minor and
> optional.
> I could have dropped them.

These are the only substantial fixes you patchset has. The rest of the
large submission is your unilateral decision to rewrite the whole thing
almost from scratch. I proposed, multiple times, to fix the small things
first, then discuss the long term evolution.

> 
> 
> I did much more that that.
> I made the memstick code readable so not only you could
> understand it
> I also wrote ms_block.c while adding common support.
> I made your code use that support.
> 
> It is really sad that you are doing that.
> 
> 
> 
> 


      
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