Re: The IrDA patches !!! (was Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status)

2000-11-12 Thread Horst von Brand
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > > I spent my full day going through my archives and splitting > > the big patch of Dag into lots of small patches (see attached). I'm > > glad I've got a big hard drive full of junk. > > When I say mu

Re: The IrDA patches !!! (was Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status)

2000-11-11 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:43:26PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ok, thanks to the work of Jean, everything seems to be applied now. > > I'll make a test3 one of these days (probably tomorrow), please verify > that everything looks happy. > > Linus Linus, S

Re: The IrDA patches !!! (was Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status)

2000-11-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, thanks to the work of Jean, everything seems to be applied now. I'll make a test3 one of these days (probably tomorrow), please verify that everything looks happy. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Some options: > > 1) Split up the large patch and fix the things you didn't like, submit them > with better discription. But then It's probably to late anyway for 2.4 (even if > the 2.4-test series is not the most stable stuff I've tried). Is it > to late for this? Probably not. Get tyts

Re: The IrDA patches !!! (was Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status)

2000-11-10 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:56:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > When I say multiple mails, I mean multiple mails. NOT "26 attachements in > one mail". In fact, not a single attachment at all, please. Send me > patches as a regular text body, with the explanation at the top, and the > patch ju

Re: The IrDA patches !!! (was Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status)

2000-11-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > I spent my full day going through my archives and splitting > the big patch of Dag into lots of small patches (see attached). I'm > glad I've got a big hard drive full of junk. When I say multiple mails, I mean multiple mails. NOT "26 attach

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-08 Thread Michael Rothwell
Linus Torvalds wrote: > and these people expect me to reply, sending long explanations of why I > don't like them? After they did nothing of the sort for the code they > claim should have been applied? Nada. Did you say that to them? I'm not saying you're wrong; but did you tell them that? It mig

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA statusRe: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-08 Thread Dag Brattli
Hi Linus, I agree that the latest patch wasn't good about specifying its contents. But in fact, the 26th of august I sent you a mail which was much better (but then your mailbox crashed or something!?) Since you hadn't applied any previoius patches (and not even the patches from Russell), I fe

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-08 Thread Russell King
Jean Tourrilhes writes: > If you can break up stuff that has accumulated over one year, > please tell me so. Most of the original patches have been lost in the > mist of time. We could send it file by file, but that would give some > interesting results ;-) That doesn't work either ;( Som

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-08 Thread Russell King
Linus Torvalds writes: > ONE message during the last month. ONE huge patch. From people who should > have known about 2.4.x being pending for some time. > > 10,000+ lines of diff, with _no_ effort to split it up, or explain it with > anything but > > "o Fixes IrDA in 2.4" > > and these p

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > Like what? I'm not sure what you're saying here. It seems that the pople > writing the IrDA code have gotten no feedback from you as to why their > patch is never accepted -- could you clarify? Just to clarify. The ONLY message from the IrDA peo

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Also, I've never seen much in the form of explanation, and at least the > > last patch I saw just the first screenful was so off-putting that I just > > went "Ok, I have real bugs to fix, I don't need this crap". > > Li

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Rothwell
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > > Linus, can you post reasons why you keep ignoring^W rejecting the IrDA > > patch? > > Basically, whatever Alan rants, I've not seen the patches all that many > times at all. > > Also, I've never seen much in the form

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-07 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:24:38PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Take a look at > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9908.0/0669.html This > happened with ISDN. Slightly different situation, but similar. I'm familiar with that. The *BIG* difference is that Dag has always sen