On Wednesday 18 February 2009, greg@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Ick. I have an inbox of 50+ emails regarding the musb patches, some to > add, some to ack, some to replace, and some arguing about changelog > comments. > > I give up. I get that way sometimes too; sigh. Can't stay that way though, for better or worse. > I'm dropping all musb patches in my tree, here they are. David, can you > respin what you want to keep, with your acks and resend them to me? If > you want some in for .29, please let me know. Yes, I'll do that. Some of them are bugfixes that should go in. (And I just sent one *new* patch, which should go in, finally making the DaVinci stuff work in mainline. Previous build fixes behaved correctly, but init tweaks are needed too.) > If there are others from > Sergei that should go in, or from anyone else, please send them as well. > > I've also removed all my signed-off-by, on purpose. > > It's only one fricken driver, why is this so much trouble? It's one driver that runs on a boatload of different silicon so it needs to be changed with some caution. Despite the fact that the original code from Mentor was deeply crapulous, and not all of the goofage has been removed. (Arguably, not all of it *can* be removed; they invented their own OTG state machine, which doesn't match the USB-IF specs...) Which means that unlike most low level USB drivers, it's got folk from several teams working concurrently: one from Analog, two or three from TI, one from MontaVista, a couple from Nokia. Thankfully it's not as bad as the mess we had with UHCI in the 2.4 kernel days; most developers are happy to cooperate and just get the bugs fixed. But with that many people at work on some nasty problems, some friction on both technical and personal levels is probably inevitable. - Dave > bah, > > greg k-h > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
