Hi, First of all, I'm sending this email because I really want to understand how linux-mips is working with its community. I'm asking this question because I'm wondering how many times I should resend a patch before it can be considered for applying. For example, I posted some patches more than one month ago. I really think that these patches improve the MIPS specific code and they are not complex at all: http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00112.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00113.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00114.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00115.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00117.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00118.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00196.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00195.html http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-08/msg00197.html These patchs have been kindly reviewed and acked by Atsushi Nemoto, but then no feedback from the MIPS team. I tried to get a status for MIPS team a couple of time, to know if something was wrong with them but MIPS people seem to not care about them. They even haven't bothered to take 10 seconds for replying something like: - your patches are broken because... - your patches do not respect our MIPS protocol, please resend... - Sorry we are very busy, please hold on... - OK your patches suck please try to work on ARM chips because MIPS is a very closed circle reserved to MIPS gurus. Another question, is that MIPS tree seems to not care about linux mainline release process. I actually notice that even Linus do not pull MIPS tree anymore during the last release candidate cycle. Is MIPS aware that some of its customers are trying to make stable releases ? Does the linux-mips team exist to ease life of its customers to use the linux kernel on MIPS chips or is the purpose of this team doing only some development for fun ? Hoping this time I'll get some answers. Franck
