From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] lib: Move find_last_bit.o to obj-y to enable use by modules. Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:59:28 -0400 Message-ID: <1240495168.11148.12.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <20090416030704.GH16961@linux-sh.org> <49E6E816.8010709@panasas.com> <20090423065006.GB21733@linux-sh.org> <49F03F26.4060103@panasas.com> <20090423102930.GA24434@linux-sh.org> <1240491589.8240.42.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20090423132530.GA26887@linux-sh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:27832 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753766AbZDWOA7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:00:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090423132530.GA26887@linux-sh.org> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Paul Mundt Cc: Benny Halevy , Rusty Russell , Ingo Molnar , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Andy Adamson , Fredric Isaman , Stephen Rothwell , Alexander Beregalov , Subrata Modak , sachinp On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 22:25 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > > In any case, this patch does not belong in the NFS tree since it touches > > generic library code, not NFS code. Benny, if nobody else wants to > > shepherd it, then just send it directly to Linus. > > > That's a complete cop-out, if there had been no export at all how would > you have proceeded? How is this situation any different? Please see Documentation/SubmittingPatches. If we were requesting a new kernel feature, I'd go looking for the maintainer and get an ACK or get said maintainer to include the patch in their tree. As it is, said kernel feature exists, but is broken. The correct thing to do is to fix the kernel feature. Sooner, rather than later. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com