Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:12:34PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:14:34AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > That's simply not true.  The amount of patches submitted is extremly
> > huge and the reviewers don't have time to look at everythning.
> > 
> > If no one replies it simply means no one has looked at it in enough
> > detail to comment yet.
> 
> How do people get to know this?  Grape vines and crystal balls are
> inherently unreliable.

If someone had looked and considered it good he'd have replied and
said that.  Simple ACK/NACK scheme - if neither returns consider it
lost.

> So, if the community has a problem with enough time to review patches,
> the community must get more (good) patch reviewers.  We can't go around
> blaming the patch submitters for a community failing.

Absolutely.  I think the major problem is that no one pays people for
doing reviews so this is purely a spare-time job.  And that spare time
is limited due to real life issues for most people.

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