On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 10:22 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Benjamin Herrenschmidt, > I'm sorry, but I'm not buying this. There must be some continuity when > the maintenance of one subsystem transitions from one maintainer to > another. I'm perfectly ok with accepting some hick-ups, but not radical > changes in design decisions. Well, I wrote it in the first place :-) > What you're asking me to do is to go completely backwards compared to > the comments and review Grant made. The irqdomain-based allocator was > suggested by Grant (see my previous e-mail, or Grant reply at > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-June/175430.html) > and was even Acked-by Grant in > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/187082.html. > > Note that this patch set has been posted at the following dates: > > * PATCH version 7 sent on August, 7th 2013 > * PATCH version 6 sent on August, 1st 2013 > * PATCH version 5 sent on July, 15th 2013 > * PATCH version 4 sent on July, 1st 2013 > * PATCH version 3 sent on June, 19th 2013 > * PATCH version 2 sent on June, 6th 2013 > * RFC version 1 sent on March, 26th 2013 I'm really sorry and I feel your pain. I have not actively been monitoring any of that stuff, and you might have gotten away without CC'ing me or asking for my point of view but you did (and I thank you for that), and sadly this is my opinion. > So it has been around since 4 months, I've taken into account all the > comments from the various maintainers who were involved, and especially > the comments from Grant. You cannot ask me now, as we are approaching > the next merge window for which this code is intended, to take > completely opposite design choices than what the previous irqdomain > maintainer was suggesting. I can and I do. However, I also leave the opportunity of bringing in a third party into the debate with a well known track record to overrule me if he thinks I'm being unnecessarily obstructive. > Could you contact Grant and align with him on those design decisions? > It would also be good if you could read the past discussions on this > patch set, because all what you're pointing at has already been > discussed at length, as I pointed out in my previous e-mail. I can try... Grant, are you around ? (I've added you to the CC list), we might be able to catch up on IRC and discuss it ... Cheers, Ben. > Thanks, > > Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
