Re: [PATCH] aic7* claims all checked EISA io ranges (was: [MAILER-DAEMON@rumms.u

Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@scsiguy.com)
Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:34:01 -0600

> On Mer, 2003-04-09 at 02:21, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> And your code goes for long periods of time without merging good fixes,
>> like this one (from 2.4.20):
>
> Which is one reason Justin's patches don't get merged. They are giant
> changes which back out other clear corrections.

This tells me two things:

1) You don't trust maintainers. If a maintainer can't make large changes,
who can?

2) When a maintainer makes a mistake (fails to integrate a good change,
or introduces a bug), the maintainers changes are simply dropped rather
then notify (either politely or not I don't much care) the maintainer
of his/her mistake.

Neither of the above applied to integration of the aic79xx driver into
the 2.4.X tree, but it still took something like 8 months.

There must be a better way.

--
Justin


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