On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:33:45AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Sorry to disturb, but it seems that kernel.org didn't pick up
> > > 2.4.20-pre1 (or I'm looking at the wrong places).
> > >
> > > I'm asking because I've just finished testing my IrDA update
> > > for 2.4.20, and you've just included some useless IrDA change that
> > > probably render my patch worthless
> >
> > What you mean I included some useless IrDA patch?
>
> Yep, tons of these :
> -----------------------------------------------
> - IRDA_DEBUG(4, __FUNCTION__ "(), speed=%d (was %d)\n", speed,
> - self->speed);
> + IRDA_DEBUG(4, "%s(), speed=%d (was %d)\n", __FUNCTION__,
> + speed, self->speed);
> -----------------------------------------------
> Between this and fixing a Oops or Deadlock, I'll take the
> second any day.
> I don't care on those patch in general, I'm not a control
> freak, except that being so pervasive they are guaranteed to screw up
> my own patches. That's why yesterday I *explicitely* asked you and
> Alan if anything was pending, so that I could avoid wasting my time
> and instead wait for the next release doing something else.
> I guess it's too late, I already wasted my afternoon.
>
> The second thing that bugs me is that because those patches
> pass behind my back, they won't get applied to *both* 2.4.X and
> 2.5.X. Because of that, keeping 2.4.X and 2.5.X in synch is an
> exercise in futility.
> But maybe you are finding that there is already too many IrDA
> maintainers.
>
> I'll send you the Wireless patches, and I'll try to respin the
> IrDA patches this afternoon (i.e. please screw me again !).
I can back out those patches if you want. Will that help you?
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