[GIT PATCH] STAGING fixes and new drivers for 2.6.35-git

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sat Jun 5 02:40:38 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:30:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Here are a number of bugfixes for the drivers/staging tree, as well as 3
> > new stand-alone drivers.  The new drivers kind of obscure the diffstat
> > showing the other fixes due to their size.
> 
> I pulled, but quite frankly, I don't want to see this kind of pull request 
> again. There's just no _point_. 
> 
> I'll take new drivers outside the merge window, but there has to be some 
> _reason_ for them. See the whole SCSI discussion a few merge windows ago. 
> The new driver needs to improve the life of somebody to the point where I 
> want to feel that there is a _reason_ for pulling it outside the merge 
> window.

Fair enough, I shouldn't have added them to the request this time,
sorry.

> These drivers? Not so much. Not even f*cking close.
> 
> In other words: tell me why the new drivers couldn't just have waited for 
> the next merge window? Really?

They could have, sorry, will not do it again.

greg k-h



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