Re: [git pull] GPIO for v3.10

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Fri May 03 2013 - 17:23:00 EST


On Fri, 3 May 2013 09:56:09 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The real problem here is that two patches which depended on each other
> > went to you through 2 different maintainer trees (mfd maintained by
> > Samuel Ortiz and gpio maintained by Grant L. & Linus W.), and the git
> > pull requests reached you in the wrong order. That doesn't make us all
> > irresponsible and lame contributors/maintainers, does it?
>
> F*ck yes it does.
>
> It means that NOBODY EVEN TEST-COMPILED THE TREE THAT GOT SENT TO ME.
>
> WTF?

It means that nobody test-compiled that tree with CONFIG_GPIO_UCB1400=m.

> If that's not "irresponsible and lame", I don't know what the hell is.

Hell, n. 1. The place or state of punishment of the wicked after
death. 2. A world where people volunteering to maintain kernel
subsystems get fewer, because they received more blame for their casual
mistakes than praise for their thankless work.

--
Jean Delvare
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