> > Look at the diffstat of Bart's driver: > > > > 15 files changed, 4036 insertions(+), 7158 deletions(-) > > > > He reduced your 5.2 KLOC non-working driver into a 1.8 KLOC _working_ > > driver. > > Bullshit, read the mails again. This was uncalled for, right? ... > Some people actually require sleep during the night, perhaps that you don't need > that and can hence review 41 patches which changes thousands of lines on the > same day the patches were submitted. If you lack time, "Really start reading my mails" sentence you used at the start of email is *not* user-friendly way to say that. > > And _still_ your complaint about Bart's series is that he updated the > > MAINTAINERS entry and added an entry for rt2800? Heck _sure_ he should > > update it, he is the one doing the hard work of trying to bring it to > > users, trying to clean up a messy driver space, trying to turn crap into > > gold. > > So if I want to focus on something different in the kernel, I just send 1 patch, > and a second to claim the maintainership of it even though there is an active > maintainer available? What about listing yourself as a maintainer for a start? > > The thing is, if you dont have the time or interest to listen to and act > > upon review feedback, be constructive about it and fix (obvious) > > structural problems in your rt2800 code, you should just step aside and > > let Bart maintain what he is apparently more capable of maintaining than > > you are. > > > > What you are doing here is a thinly veiled land-grab: you did a minimal > > token driver for rt2800 that doesnt work, kept it in your private tree > > for _1.5 years_, and the moment someone _else_ came along and did > > something better and more functional in drivers/staging/, you discovered > > your sudden interest for it and moved the crappy driver upstream at > > lightning's speed (it is already in net-next AFAICS, despite negative > > test and review feedback) - ignoring and throwing away all the work that > > Bart has done. > > Get your facts straight, the bullshit level in your mail is staggering. > > You have no fucking clue who wrote the rt2800 driver which is in > drivers/staging/, Perhaps you should not be a maintainer if you can't behave yourself? > Because a lot of people prefer looking from the sideline, > contributing _nothing_ Given your behaviour, I'm not suprised people are not too eager to work with you. > As for "throwing away that work" I ACKED 10 of his patches, and said I would review > the rest later! But like I said, apparently it is a bad habit for people to sleep during > the night. Read your email again. It was quite far from 'acked 10, asked for time'. You flamed him first. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
