Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI merge for 2.6.13

From: James Bottomley
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 19:56:47 EST


On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Quite frankly, what's the point in asking people to pull a tree that is
> > known to not compile?
>
> Btw, I see the patch that is supposed to fix it, but I'm in no position to
> know whether it's even acceptable to basically double the size of the
> "struct klist", for example. There may be a good reason why Greg hasn't
> been merging the klist stuff, and just assuming that they are merged not
> only screws up everybody down-stream, it's not necessarily valid in the
> first place.
>
> In other words, I think I will have to just revert the commit that
> introduces this bogus "assume a patch that wasn't merged" (commit ID
> 2b7d6a8cb9718fc1d9e826201b64909c44a915f4) for now.
>
> And once more strongly complain about it getting sent to me in the first
> place since it was known to not even compile.

He's been on holiday, but he did send me a sign off for that particular
patch so I could put it through the SCSI tree. However, because Andrew
sent you the patch before I could do this, there didn't seem to be any
necessity ...

James


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