On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:36 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:51 -0400
>
> > James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:09 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >> James Bottomley wrote:
> > >>> This should be the final SCSI updates; it's mainly just a few accessor
> > >>> completion updates and two driver merges (sym2 and qla2xxx) we also
> > >>> secured DaveM's agreement to remove fcal/fc4, which explains the high
> > >>> removal line count.
> > >>>
> > >>> The patch is available here:
> > >>>
> > >>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git
> > >> I guess I have the go-ahead to merge the end-CDROM-polling async
> > >> notification work you've been repeatedly ignoring?
> > >
> > > I haven't been ignoring it ... it just needs quite a bit of work; the
> > > best way to accelerate it seems to be simply to do it (add the
> > > supported/trigger event bitmasks and expand the infrastructure). I just
> > > haven't had the time within the merge window.
> >
> > James, things cannot get bottlenecked like this. You have had MONTHS to
> > say something like this. The code was ready BEFORE the merge window.
> >
> > I really think you have the knowledge to be SCSI maintainer, but not the
> > time.
>
> Unfortunately, I think this is an important point.
>
> Developers depend strongly upon a subsystem maintainer to
> "make time" for these things so that work integration does
> not get delayed past the merge window if at all possible.
>
> Not being able to "make time" to do these things is a great
> way to lose contributers.
>
> James, whilst there is no doubt in my mind that skill-wise
> you are probably the most capable scsi maintainer, your "lack
> of time" is sounding like a broken record and harming the
> development process.
OK, so it's no secret that I'm the last of the subsystem maintainers
whose day job isn't working on the linux kernel. If you want a full
time person, who did you have in mind?
James
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