[PATCH 0/5] staging: bcm: logging cleanups

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 04:20 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:42:00PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 17:38 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Your "first-come first-applied" policy is
> > > > mindless and tasteless.
> > > What do you suggest I do?  Last-come?  Loudest?  Longest?
> > Use a little taste.  Apply the best ones.
> "best" is in the eye of the beholder.
> And honestly, I found the other patches much "better" than yours.
> > Also don't let patches lay about for 6+ weeks.
> Don't send cleanup patches at the very end of the -rc cycle, combined
> with Christmas vacation, and expect to have them looked at immediately.

I didn't.  I didn't say anything about those
long pending patches but I inform one other
person that attempted a cleanup of the same module.

> > When modules like bcm need significant work,
> > _you_ are a real bottleneck.
> Ah, that's the Joe I've grown to love over the years.

Mine is not a singular position.  Christoph Hellwig
and Alan Cox have said similar things publicly, others
privately.
 
> Sorry, I just instituted a kill-filter for two weeks for you and
> deleted all unread emails of yours from my mbox.  If you have any
> problems with this, please see figure one.

Comical.  Hard to believe you're a big boy that
can't take the tiniest criticism.

> See you in a few weeks,

Doubtful.

You're overloaded and you need to offload something.

Staging is a continuing mess and the turnover rate
there will remain relatively low while you refuse
the assistance of others in cleaning it.