Re: 2.6.32 -mm merge plans

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 03:11:44 EST


On 09/16/2009 03:03 AM, Paul Mundt wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:15:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
mtd-make-onenand-genericc-more-generic.patch
mtd-nand-add-page-parameter-to-all-read_page-read_page_raw-apis.patch
mtd-nand-add-new-ecc-mode-ecc_hw_oob_first.patch
mtd-nand-davinci-add-4-bit-ecc-support-for-large-page-nand-chips.patch
mtd-nand-davinci-add-4-bit-ecc-support-for-large-page-nand-chips-update.patch
mtd-jffs2-fix-read-buffer-overflow.patch
mtd-prevent-a-read-from-eraseregions.patch
mtd-prevent-a-read-from-regions.patch
mtd-jedec_probe-fix-nec-upd29f064115-detection.patch
mtdpart-memory-accessor-interface-for-mtd-layer.patch

-> dwmw2

Regarding mtd-make-onenand-genericc-more-generic.patch, I'm not really
sure what happened. To recap:

It was posted to the mtd list here:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026805.html

Kyungmin objected to the driver name change here:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026807.html

I pointed out that the rough rationale for the name change here:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026808.html

and offered to redo the patch keeping the old name if Kyungmin felt the
rationale wasn't valid, but received no reply. Subsequently, Artem
mentioned that he had merged it in to his l2-mtd-2.6.git tree here:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026866.html

which subsequently seems to not actually have happened.

Well, I did put my patch to my l2-mtd-2.6.git tree:

http://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/l2-mtd-2.6.git/commit/6e6e7d0e163148c620b4807b1ffac973f9805f20

I just put it to the dunno branch which means "I did not review this".
The master branch contains the stuff I did review.

And the idea was that dwmw2 would then take a look at all these patches
and merge them. He did merge the stuff from the master branch, but did not
merge the stuff from the dunno branch (yet).

This is a pretty trivial patch, and I don't mind respinning it in
whatever form folks are content with. I had assumed given the mention
that it had been merged in to the l2 tree that the rationale was
sufficient for merging.

I know it is frustrating when maintainers ignore patches, we feel this pain
with ARM patches, for example. It is unpleasant to re-send patches 4 times,
and get zero response, not even "I have not time now" one. On the other hand,
I understand maintainers who are busy with other things.

So I just try to help by collecting people's stuff, review _some_ of it, but
I do not merge this upstream.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÑÑÑÐ ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ)
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