linux-kernel - Re: Please merge two small bug fix patches from linux-next

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1201082319560.24030@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Sun, 8 Jan 2012 23:21:39 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Please merge two small bug fix patches from linux-next

On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 13:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> wrote:
> > > Below are two patches that have been in linux-next for ages (via akpm's
> > > tree). They are prette simple, straight-up, bug fixes. They have been
> > > submitted to maintainers multiple times over (IIRC at least the past
> > > year), but for some reason the maintainers seem uninterested in picking
> > > them up (or even responding to them).
> []
> > they seem to have Andrew's sign-off, so I'd have expected them to
> > come through Andew. What's up?
> 
> >From my perspective, the issue lies with James'
> apparent desire to keep scsi tree changes as close
> to zero as possible.
> 
> Many obvious corrections to scsi defects have gone
> unapplied.
> 

I have to agree. It's actually gotten to the point that I personally 
completely avoid/ignore scsi code when looking for stuff to fix/improve 
since I don't expect to be able to get the patches merged anyway..


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