Filtering noise is about protecting resourses (was: Re: Remove Ban?)

2014-12-09 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Muhoray writes: > Not that I have any say in this, but I feel like a ban should rather > be justified by someone's behavior instead of incorrect patches. It's not a ban, it's a protective filter. Maintainers and reviewers are limited resources. We should not waste them. > I > guess mo

Re: Remove Ban?

2014-12-09 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Philipp Muhoray wrote: > > Am 2014-12-09 um 07:50 schrieb Avinash Patil: > > Hi Nick, > > Not that I have any say in this, but I feel like a ban should rather be > justified by someone's behavior instead of incorrect patches. I guess most > of us have send awful p

Re: Remove Ban?

2014-12-08 Thread Philipp Muhoray
Am 2014-12-09 um 07:50 schrieb Avinash Patil: Hi Nick, I saw one of your patch to brcmfmac in Lunux wireless. For one such FIXME you have added mutex lock; just because comment said need to have mutex lock here. You did not have any hardware to test this patch; you simply created patch bec

Re: Remove Ban?

2014-12-08 Thread Avinash Patil
Hi Nick, I saw one of your patch to brcmfmac in Lunux wireless. For one such FIXME you have added mutex lock; just because comment said need to have mutex lock here. You did not have any hardware to test this patch; you simply created patch because comment said so. Rafal and other maintainers we

Re: Remove Ban?

2014-12-08 Thread Nick Krause
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:32 AM, wrote: > On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:15:13 -0500, nick said: >> Greetings Fellow Developers, >> I have finally learned my lesson as you can tell from my newest patches being >> accepted or considered in good form. > > Right now,all I'm seeing in linux-next from you is

Re: Remove Ban?

2014-12-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:15:13 -0500, nick said: > Greetings Fellow Developers, > I have finally learned my lesson as you can tell from my newest patches being > accepted or considered in good form. Right now,all I'm seeing in linux-next from you is 2 patches that remove FIXME comments. Given your

Remove Ban?

2014-12-07 Thread nick
Greetings Fellow Developers, I have finally learned my lesson as you can tell from my newest patches being accepted or considered in good form. In addition if people are willing to trust me again, I would like to remove my ban in order to help out more. If not I understand completely and will tr