Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: fb: Rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:15:57 +0100 |
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On Sunday, January 13, 2013 04:14:38 PM Sedat Dilek wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > your patch from [1] - as far as I followed - misses a lot of > Reported-by#s and Tested-by#s (Boris, Jiri, etc.). > Just one new R-b I have seen yesterday. > > I have the original patch from Alan plus the two follow-ups from you > in my patch-series against v3.8-{rc2,rc3} for quite a while. > So, please feel free to add a Tested-by. > > Unfortunately, your patch has introduced some (unwanted) extra chars > like "_*" (comments only). > I appreciate one single (new) patch like this, but please in a proper way.
Why don't you prepare such a patch? I suppose you know everything you need?
> A disappeared/busy/not-answering maintainer is not an excuse for > handling serious regressions (even here in this case there are fixes > around), > Personally, I am still missing a mei-driver fix [2] and a libata-dev fix [3]. > Both issues are not new to the maintainers. > Not sure if shouting louder is the best strategy here.
[2] seems to be in the Greg's tree, so I suppose it's on its way to Linus and please note that we're after a several days vacation period and people need to process their backlogs.
Perhaps just ping the relevant maintainers when 3.8-rc4 is out (and do the same after -rc5 and so on).
> It would be great to have a place like a "board of arbitration" where > someone can send blames. > And I remember vaguely Rafael had a nice list of issues (w/ reference > to patches!). > This was a real cool helpful innoivation! > I can't remember why Rafael stopped his nice service to the > Linux-kernel community.
Because I don't have the time to do that any more. Yes, it was useful, but it also was quite a bit of work. Would you volunteer to do that?
Rafael
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1969391/ > [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git;a=commitdiff;h=e6028db0146cf5a68dbd1508225ea49840997880 > [3] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/206897/ -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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