On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:43:00PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:

In the first RFC series I sent on the 24 June, I explicitly asked the
following questions:

(...)

I even stated: "Please look at the patches and make suggestions on how
we can proceed to clean up this quirk of DSA." and made no mention of
wanting something explicitly from Andrew.

Yet, none of those questions were answered.

So no, Jakub's comments are *not* misdirected at all. Go back and read
my June 24th RFC series yourself:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/YrWi5oBFn7vR15BH@shell.armlinux.org.uk/ (local)

I don't believe I need to justify myself any further for why I didn't
leave a comment on any certain day. I left my comments when I believed
it was most appropriate for me to intervene (as someone who isn't really
affected in any way by the changes, except for generally maintaining
what's in net/dsa/, and wanting to keep a clean framework structure).
Also, to repeat myself, blaming me for leaving comments, but doing so
late, is not really fair. I could have not responded at all, and I
wouldn't be having this unpleasant discussion. It begs the question
whether you're willing to be held accountable in the same way for the
dates on which you respond on RFC patches.

I've *tried* my best to be kind and collaborative, but I've been
ignored. Now I'm hacked off. This could have been avoided by responding
to my explicit questions sooner, rather than at the -rc6/-rc7 stage of
the show.

I think you should continue to try your best to be kind and collaborative,
you weren't provoked or intentionally ignored in any way, and it isn't
doing these patches any good.