Re: [PATCH 0/29v2] InfiniBand core update

From: Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org,
	rolandd@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/29v2] InfiniBand core update
Date: 12 Jul 2005 05:11:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121159462.4389.5108.camel@hal.voltaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050711.201225.34760317.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:12, David S. Miller wrote:
> Please acknowledge that you understand how inappropriate
> and problem causing your huge patch bomb was today to this
> mailing list.
> 
> It is nearly 8 hours later, and vger.kernel.org is still
> trying mightily to spit out all of your patches to the
> 5000+ people subscribed to linux-kernel.
> 
> There is about ~6 hour posting latency as a result of all
> of this.

I understand the problem it caused. The MAD layer of InfiniBand was 
quite a bit behind and we wanted to catch up. I tried to make them in
smaller manageable pieces and that was why there were so many patches in
the series. In the future, I will endeavor to make the changes smaller.
Sorry for the problems this caused.

-- Hal