On 3/19/2011 5:14 PM, Greg KH wrote:

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:15:47PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

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On 3/18/2011 5:22 PM, Greg KH wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:10:10PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

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I needed all patches in linux-next _before_ the merge window opened to
be able to accept it.

Yes, I know, and as dmaengine maintainer I also hate being ambushed by
last minute patches, but now I am unfortunately one of those annoying
people on the other side of the coin.

Then you should know better than to try to go around the well-known
rules :)

Yes...

/me about to push his luck

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As Jeff pointed out:
"It seemed like this was turning into another driver that would get
held outside the kernel until it's "perfect."  If that is the case,
Linus has also made it clear we should get drivers for high volume,
shipping hardware into the kernel, even if its staging, if the
alternative is to deny users the driver."

That's fine, _BUT_ you are trying to go around the rules for the merge
window, which isn't acceptable.   Also note that your driver isn't
self-contained, it needs this change at the least, right?  Any others?

This efi export was a late discovery, we tried to use the existing 
exports (raw efi runtime services) but it was not clean (needed to 
duplicate utf-8 encoding in the driver).  The other external changes/bug 
fixes needed for this driver were submitted weeks ago.

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So yes, we are targeting that exception.  I'm up for taking the heat
directly if you want...  because the pull request will need to
backed up with justification.

No, sorry, I'll not take this for .40, all of my trees are merged with
Linus now for .40 and I'll only be sending him bugfixes until the .41
merge window opens up.

Remember, it's only a 3 month wait, you knew about this _WAY_ in
advance, so it's not like this is something new, or out of the ordinary
at all.  Because of that, I fail to see why this is somehow not
expected.

Yes, we knew about this way in advance, we brought you in too late for a 
.39-staging discussion.  Appreciate the consideration and understand the 
outcome.

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Dan