From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933698Ab3CVPmE (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:42:04 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:50926 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933382Ab3CVPmC (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:42:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:41:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20130322.114159.2303026992656610194.davem@davemloft.net> To: benmcollins13@gmail.com Cc: afleming@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add support for handling queueing in hardware From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <9AEAD974-4549-475A-AE15-C92523CD2466@gmail.com> References: <20130322.111759.2108472348146991505.davem@davemloft.net> <9AEAD974-4549-475A-AE15-C92523CD2466@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ben Collins Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:39:20 -0400 > If your company had hardware going to production, you'd want it > supported in mainline too, I suspect. But never against the wishes of the author of the code. This has firm and strict precedence, for example one of the implementations block layer encryption was not wanted to be merged by the author, and Linus reverted it. So if the person who wrote the code doesn't want it upstream, you can't bypass them against their wishes, ever. It's their code not your's.