[PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device.

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Sun Feb 19 04:02:42 EST 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 08:32 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Arjan> The bigger issue is: if people can't be bothered to do
>     Arjan> those steps, why would they be bothered to do this for
>     Arjan> maintenance and bugfixes etc etc?  Basically it's now
>     Arjan> already a de-facto unmaintained driver....
> 
> I don't think that's really a fair statement.

It's a concern at least; if they're just having trouble posting really
big files that's one thing.. if they're not allowed to post at all
that's another.

> IBM people: can you clarify the restrictions you have?  Why do you
> feel you can't post your own driver for review?  Will you be able to
> post smaller patches to lkml in the future if the driver is merged?

And can you respond to questions and user questions on lkml?





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