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pull request: wireless-2.6 2009-10-08

Message ID 200910091057.21269.mb@bu3sch.de
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Michael Buesch Oct. 9, 2009, 8:57 a.m. UTC 
On Friday 09 October 2009 03:01:19 David Miller wrote:
> From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 01:08:06 +0200
> 
> > I was planning to do a better solution, but I didn't have the time, yet.
> 
> The change is harmless while we're twiddling our thumbs waiting
> for you to implement the fix "properly."
> 
> Not having the fix in is a developer burdon because people turn
> on the DMA API debugger and are going to keep reporting it's
> complaints here and elsewhere.
> 
> Get over your Napoleon complex, and let reasonable working fixes
> get into the tree even if you don't find them optimal.  You can
> always improve them later, "when you get around to it."
> 
> People put fixes in without my ACK in my areas of expertiece all
> the time.  I got over it a long time ago, it's OK, and not worth
> stressing out over.

Ok, that's enough. If you do not need a maintainer, then work without one.
What's a maintainer good for, if it's not for maintaining the code quality?

The patch needlessly moves huge chunks of crap, adds stupid comments, wastes memory.
If that's what you want just to remove a debugging message on devices that virtually
nobody owns, so be it.


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Comments

David Miller Oct. 9, 2009, 9:18 a.m. UTC | #1 
From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:57:19 +0200

> What's a maintainer good for, if it's not for maintaining the code
> quality?

It does not mean you get total control over anything, ever.

That's my main point.

Every maintainer who loses his mind when some change goes in he
doesn't like has a serious control problem.  And yes, sometimes that
includes me.
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Patch

--- wireless-testing.orig/MAINTAINERS
+++ wireless-testing/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1066,7 +1066,6 @@  F:	include/net/ax25.h
 F:	net/ax25/
 
 B43 WIRELESS DRIVER
-M:	Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
 M:	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
 L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
 W:	http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43