Hi Pavel On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > I discarded them _because_ Eric handled them, which is what I said in the > > > > comments when I discarded them. > > > > > > Ok, I did do my best to get patches in the right order in the mainline, > > > but it all failed. AFAICS, v4l and sh are already in the mainline with a > > > _wrongly_ resolved mefge conflict, which, most likely, breaks the > > > sh_mobile_ceu_camera.c driver, and the three PXA platforms, patches for > > > which should have been applied before both those trees and still haven't > > > been applied are broken until the patches do get in and the later those > > > patches get applied the longer the interval with the broken for them > > > bisection is going to be. > > > > Meanwhile I have to consider that we have several bug fixes outstanding, > > and since I can't send Linus a pull request every day (max once a week) > > I have to be very careful about when I send stuff. > > > > So I only get _two_ opportunities during a merge window to send a pull > > request. > > Well, you should certainly try to keep your tree unbroken, but when > it breaks, fixing it asap should be a priority. I don't know where you > got the 'once a week' rule, but it seems stupid. > > > I'm going to wait until tomorrow before sending my final pull for this > > window, which is the penultimate day before the window closes. > > > > Don't blame me for these delays - it's not my choice to impose such > > delays. I'd really like to fix those broken platforms right now. I > > just can't do so without causing additional delays for other issues. > > Blame Linus for imposing the "max one pull a week" rule on me. > > Do you have maillist reference? Not even Linus should slow down > development like that. > > If Linus really insists on that, perhaps possible solution would be to > make subarch maintainers send pull requests for simple fixes directly > to Linus? Thanks for your concern, but the patches are long in mainline, no reason to worry any more. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
