linux-kernel - Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2015 15:54:02 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>,
	Havoc Pennington <havoc.pennington@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>
Subject: Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?

On Mon 2015-06-22 23:41:40, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:06:09PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Hi Linus,
> > 
> > Can you opine as to whether you think that kdbus should be merged?
> 
> Ah, a preemptive pull request denial, how nice.

> I don't think I've ever seen such a thing before, congratulations for
> creating something so must have previously been lacking in our
> development model in how to work together in a community in a productive
> manner.

Apparently, new tools are needed in the community, as normal review
comments did not stop drivers/android/binder.c merge.

For example binder_transaction does not exactly look like a kernel
code, "TODO: fput" does not really invoke confidence, and ammount of
BUG_ON()s is quite amazing...


								Pavel
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