On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:36 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:51 -0400 > > > James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:09 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >> James Bottomley wrote: > > >>> This should be the final SCSI updates; it's mainly just a few accessor > > >>> completion updates and two driver merges (sym2 and qla2xxx) we also > > >>> secured DaveM's agreement to remove fcal/fc4, which explains the high > > >>> removal line count. > > >>> > > >>> The patch is available here: > > >>> > > >>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git > > >> I guess I have the go-ahead to merge the end-CDROM-polling async > > >> notification work you've been repeatedly ignoring? > > > > > > I haven't been ignoring it ... it just needs quite a bit of work; the > > > best way to accelerate it seems to be simply to do it (add the > > > supported/trigger event bitmasks and expand the infrastructure). I just > > > haven't had the time within the merge window. > > > > James, things cannot get bottlenecked like this. You have had MONTHS to > > say something like this. The code was ready BEFORE the merge window. > > > > I really think you have the knowledge to be SCSI maintainer, but not the > > time. > > Unfortunately, I think this is an important point. > > Developers depend strongly upon a subsystem maintainer to > "make time" for these things so that work integration does > not get delayed past the merge window if at all possible. > > Not being able to "make time" to do these things is a great > way to lose contributers. > > James, whilst there is no doubt in my mind that skill-wise > you are probably the most capable scsi maintainer, your "lack > of time" is sounding like a broken record and harming the > development process. OK, so it's no secret that I'm the last of the subsystem maintainers whose day job isn't working on the linux kernel. If you want a full time person, who did you have in mind? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
