On Saturday 23 February 2008 12:07:51 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If this is not a repgession, than I don't know what is. And if it is > > > a regression, it should be fixed at least in the 2.6.24.y series, do > > > you agree? > > > > No. Playing with kconfig SELECT is really _nothing_ for a -stable > > series. I am _not_ going to be responsible for any breakages. [...] > > well, i've reviewed this thread and it's pretty apparent to any outside > observer that you as a maintainer are ignoring Alexey Zaytsev's pretty > reasonable request for a fix. > > Alexey had a problem, he analyzed it, he found a fix which he tested, > and he even has offered to test anything you send his way: > > || I have provided a patch that I believe is trivial, that I have tested > || with all possible config option combinations I thought were possible, > || and that fixes the regression. If you have a reason to believe it is > || wrong, please say it, I won't be offended. If there is a problem with > || the patch, I'll gladly fix and resend it. > > that's about the most friendly tester attitude that is imaginable. > > but what were you able to make out of that positive attitude? The only > things i've seen you send his way were insults and general handwaving > about how his patch breaks stuff (without providing a _shred_ of > evidence).
blah: > I have to say, after having observed multiple incidents around b43 in > the past few months you are one of the worst driver maintainers i've > ever seen on lkml: you are ignoring regressions, you are frequently > insulting our testers and now you even have the gall to NAK a patch to > _your own buggy driver code_ without providing an alternative fix. > Kudos. So I am forced to sign-off random patches people send to me? I explained why I do not. If you do not like that, please do sign it off. If you do think the patch is correct, please _do_ sign it off Ingo. This problem will fix itself by switching to b43 and dropping bcm43xx. _That_ is my way to fix the bug. I don't understand all the SELECT implications, so I'm not going to introduce more of them. Because if the next regression appears from I SELECT that I signed off goto blah; -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
