Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:34:01 -0600 | From | "Justin T. Gibbs" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] aic7* claims all checked EISA io ranges (was: [ |
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> On Mer, 2003-04-09 at 02:21, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> And your code goes for long periods of time without merging good fixes, >> like this one (from 2.4.20): > > Which is one reason Justin's patches don't get merged. They are giant > changes which back out other clear corrections.
This tells me two things:
1) You don't trust maintainers. If a maintainer can't make large changes, who can?
2) When a maintainer makes a mistake (fails to integrate a good change, or introduces a bug), the maintainers changes are simply dropped rather then notify (either politely or not I don't much care) the maintainer of his/her mistake.
Neither of the above applied to integration of the aic79xx driver into the 2.4.X tree, but it still took something like 8 months.
There must be a better way.
-- Justin
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