On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:01:17AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

Hi,

Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Also, never rebase your tree immediately before sending a pull
request.

I did not, of course. My mail stated:
"Build-tested for now. This is based on your current tree tip because it
depends on commits following 3.6 release."

You're lucky that you didn't get flamed by Linus himself for that, as
others _have_ been in the past.

Normally I wouldn't rebase, but had to (as you well knew) - because you
commited a conflicting patch to this very IXP4xx arch. Using your logic,
you were supposed to get an Ack from me (or from Imre) for this patch.

If you had *bothered* asking the arm-soc people to pull your tree
_instead_ of Linus, then that problem becomes the arm-soc's problem, not
yours.  That  means _you_ end up with _less_ work to do.  Yet, instead
of seeing that benefit, whenever you've been asked to send your tree via
arm-soc, you throw your toys out of your pram and basically refuse.

So, you're making *more* work for yourself by not participating in
arm-soc (as I've explained to you before.)

The _ONLY_ thing you have to do is send your pull request to the arm-soc
people instead of Linus before the merge window opens.  You don't need to
rebase your stuff on a different tree, you can still use Linus' tree as
a basis.

You have offered no technical reason why you can't participate in arm-soc
which has stood up to screutiny.

The only reasons you've offered seem to be:

1. it'll be more work (untrue)
2. you look after platforms which aren't in mainline and you're not submitting
   to mainline.

Both of these a total nonsense arguments when it comes to the _route_ that
your patches make their way into mainline.  They have absolutely no bearing
on the path your changes take AT ALL.

Don't get me wrong. If I had time for this it could be different.
Unfortunately IXP4xx is a legacy arch, and for me it's simply a hobby at
this point. Given the raised barriers to participate, probably aimed at
paid maintainers, I have to quit doing this.

As you're being difficult and not willing to co-operate, and for whatever
reason building this issue into a mountain, this unfortunately sounds to
me like a good thing.  Hopefully, a more co-operative maintainer will step
up in your place who can see the benefits.