netdev - Re: pull request: wireless-next-2.6 2009-10-28

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Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:03:54 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@...il.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-next-2.6 2009-10-28

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > I've searched on my GMail archives and the only patch Bart has
> > provided so far for the rt2x00 project is this:
> > 
> > [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: rt2x00 list is moderated
> > 
> > Which, while technically correct, adds nothing to the project.
> > 
> > So, I will personally continue to ignore Bart's comments, regards and
> > rants, until he provides patches for rt2x00 that actually make the
> > driver better.
> 
> Well, he provided review feedback... he should be thanked for that,
> not flamed for it.

He has actually written real patches (and quite non-trivial both in amount 
and in functionality), see

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/372

But yes, he got flamed for this for some odd reason. I got the impression 
that the community around rt2x00 doesn't like (or understand) the way how 
opensource development happens.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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