Re: [PATCH] s390: claw network device driver

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 02:58:46 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Was cc'ed to linux-net last Thursday, but it looks like the messages was
> too large and the vger server munched it.

This also brings up a larger question... why was a completely unreviewed
net driver merged?


Because nobody noticed that it didn't make it to the mailing list,
obviously.

That's ducking the question. Let me rephrase.

Why was a complete lack of response judged to be an ACK?

For new drivers, that's a -horrible- precedent. You are quite skilled at poking random hackers :) why not poke somebody to ack a new drivers? It's not like this driver (or many of the other new drivers) desperately need to get into the kernel ASAP, so desperate that a lack of review was OK.

Jeff


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