Re: [patch 4/6] ide: allow ide_dev_read_id() to be called from the IRQ context

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On Friday 07 August 2009 19:36:10 David Miller wrote:
> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 19:27:36 +0200
> 
> > Are you trying to tell me that after 6 weeks there is still no public
> > tree to hold future IDE changes?
> > 
> > If this is indeed a case here I hope that it will get addressed ASAP.
> 
> IDE is deep maintainence, we shouldn't be doing lots of changes,
> cleanups, and things of this nature.  So urgency and timeliness
> is on a sincerely different scale for it.

Nobody is saying anything about cleanups and things of this nature..

> On the other hand, if you've been looking, I've been applying
> networking patches to net-2.6 and net-next-2.6 by the truckload
> on a daily basis because it is in active development.

Excellence in one area doesn't magically translate to other areas,
especially when said area needs a completely different approach:

I've been looking and I've seen you pushing non-trivial IDE bug-fix
patches with almost no wider hardware coverage to upstream (i.e. one
of my own patches which has been _explicitly_ marked as needing more
linux-next exposure)..
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