Re: ACPI_DOCK bug: noone cares

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> Two weeks ago, we had:
> - a bug report
> - a detailed description how to possibly fix this issue
> 
> What we did NOT have was:
> - any reaction by the patch author or any maintainer
>   (although with the exception of Linus, the recipients of the problem
>    description were exactly the same as the ones in this email)
> 
> A few days later, the patch that includes this bug was included in 
> Linus' tree.
> 
> Two weeks later, the bug is still present in both latest -mm and Linus' 
> tree.
> 
> Linus, please do a
>   git-revert a5e1b94008f2a96abf4a0c0371a55a56b320c13e

Fair enough. Reverted.

I think I'll stop accepting any ACPI patches at all that add new features, 
as long as there doesn't seem to be anybody who reacts to bug-reports. We 
don't need ACPI features.

We need somebody who answers when people like Andrew asks about patches to 
support things like memory hotplug (which was also a problem over the last 
weeks). Here's a quote from Andrew from a week or so ago: "repeat seven 
times over three months with zero response.".

It's not worth it to accept new stuff if we know it's not going to get any 
attention ever afterwards.

			Linus
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