Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:10:35 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] fixes for tidspbridge 2.6.37-rc1 |
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:53:29PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > If it is easy to revert and push later, then the "revert just this > > piece" should be done now. > > > > Seriously, I'm getting very confused here, and am very annoyed by the > > whole thing. > > With good reason. > > > Here's what I don't like: > > - the original driver didn't even seem to work properly > > It _was_ working properly, when it was a separate branch, but the > merge to staging wasn't done correctly, so it has never worked there.
Well, blame the people who sent it to me then :)
> > - people sent me patches they never tested and broke things even worse > > Part of the blame goes to TI. Even if you have the hardware, it's not > straightforward to test this. I have struggled to improve the > situation on user-space with the gst-dsp and dsp-tools projects, which > btw have not received support from TI, but apparently they were not > used to test this (neither was the "official" solution from TI which > is much harder to set up). > > > - some people have no respect for the omap maintainers and what they > > think about things, or even basic knowledge of the kernel > > development cycle. > > I don't think this is the case. The opinion of the OMAP maintainers is > valuable in order to cleanup the mess that is this driver. But _first_ > it has to work. Most people are not developers, they just want to use > this driver. > > > - I do not have this hardware so I can't test anything. > > > > So, from now on, I'm not taking ANYONES patches for this driver unless > > it gets an ack from the driver maintainer, Omar Luna. > > > > Actually, no, I'm not going to take any patch unless it _comes from_ > > Omar. Omar, please work to queue up patches and test them, and then > > send them to me for merging. > > > > Any questions? > > You mean after this pull, or should Omar re-send this pull request?
I'm not pulling _anything_ at the moment for this driver.
I want to see patches, not a pull request please, as these need to be reviewed very closely.
thanks,
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