linux-kernel - Re: kdbus refactoring?

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Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2015 07:02:49 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>,
	Havoc Pennington <havoc.pennington@...il.com>
Subject: Re: kdbus refactoring?

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:28:42AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 09.11.2015 um 10:19 schrieb David Herrmann:
> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 09:56:04AM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
> >>
> >>> The submission and following year of development followed the 'kernel
> >>> way'.
> >>
> >> This is not true; the last complete posting I could find was:
> >>
> >>   Date: Mon,  9 Mar 2015 14:09:06 +0100
> >>   Subject: [PATCH v4 00/14] Add kdbus implementation
> > 
> > ..which was the last time we proposed it for inclusion.
> 
> Guys, let's cool down. :-)
> 
> What Peter is complaining about is that since the last proposal a lot
> of iterative patches and even pull requests were sent instead of
> complete patch series.
> The expectation was that you send patch series with fixes folded in
> as long the review takes.

And that will happen, when the code is ready, nothing different is
happening here from any other code submission.  I don't know why people
somehow think we don't know how to do this whole thing, it's as if they
don't trust us, which is sad.

greg k-h
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