Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?
[Posted June 24, 2015 by jake]
| From: |
| Greg KH <gregkh-AT-linuxfoundation.org> |
| To: |
| Andy Lutomirski <luto-AT-amacapital.net> |
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| Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge? |
| Date: |
| Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:41:40 -0700 |
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| <20150623064140.GA18300@kroah.com> |
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| Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>, "linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann-AT-gmail.com>, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz-AT-opendz.org>, Havoc Pennington <havoc.pennington-AT-gmail.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-AT-xmission.com>, One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes-AT-lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Tom Gundersen <teg-AT-jklm.no>, Daniel Mack <daniel-AT-zonque.org> |
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:06:09PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Can you opine as to whether you think that kdbus should be merged?
Ah, a preemptive pull request denial, how nice.
I don't think I've ever seen such a thing before, congratulations for
creating something so must have previously been lacking in our
development model in how to work together in a community in a productive
manner.
Not.
> I
> don't mean whether you'd accept a pull request that Greg may or may
> not send during this merge window -- I mean whether you think that
> kdbus should be merged if it had appropriate review and people were
> okay with the implementation.
How about you just wait for the real merge request to be submitted, and
we can go from there. Perhaps I wasn't going to do it this release?
Perhaps I was? Who knows? Who cares.
> The current state of uncertainty is problematic, I think. The kdbus
> team is spending a lot of time making things compatible with kdbus,
> and the latest systemd release makes kdbus userspace support
> mandatory.
I stopped here in this email, as this is just flat out totally wrong,
and I don't want to waste my time trying to refute other totally wrong
statements as that would just somehow give them some validation that
they could possibly be correct.
greg k-h
