On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:04:06 -0500 James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:51 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > James Bottomley wrote: > > > It's not a bug fix or even an enhancement. Historically, it is quite > > > difficult to get maintainers to ack these ... particularly if you don't > > > cc them. > > > > If neither you nor the maintainers are reading and responding to patches > > sent to linux-scsi, I don't think the problem is sitting in my chair. > > Oh come off it ... You've been around long enough to know that > maintainers are not always watching everything ... it would be nice if > they were, but to give a patch the best shot at review, you try to > attract their attention. Specifically, in this case, you should cc the > maintainers and you should have a subject line explaining that you are > modifying their driver. It is very easy to ignore a patch that's simply > waved at the SCSI list with a generic subject line.
I can understand subsystem maintainers ignoring lkml, but ignoring the subsystem mailing list makes no sense to me, especially if the subject contains "[PATCH]". > > If others have SCSI patches that have been sitting in limbo for weeks or > > months, send them to me, and I'll queue them in misc-2.6.git#scsi. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
