From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422943AbcBZRi6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:38:58 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:59197 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422880AbcBZRgX (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:36:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:36:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20160226.123621.1711849052272895222.davem@davemloft.net> To: blogic@openwrt.org Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, Fred.Chang@mediatek.com, steven.liu@mediatek.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Carlos.Huang@mediatek.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 03/12] net-next: mediatek: add embedded switch driver (ESW) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <56D06E3F.1020100@openwrt.org> References: <1456496504-50429-4-git-send-email-blogic@openwrt.org> <20160226151813.GD12022@lunn.ch> <56D06E3F.1020100@openwrt.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.5 / 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-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:36:22 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: John Crispin Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:24:47 +0100 > the problem here is that on one side people complain about vendors not > sending code upstream. once they start being a good citizen and provide > funding to send stuff upstream the feedback tends to be very bad as seen > here. The feedback is not bad, on the contrary it is very positive and people like Andrew want to help people like you write proper switch drivers. If you were ignored, or rejected purely on the grounds of coding style issues, that would be "very bad" feedback. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: davem@davemloft.net (David Miller) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:36:21 -0500 (EST) Subject: [PATCH V2 03/12] net-next: mediatek: add embedded switch driver (ESW) In-Reply-To: <56D06E3F.1020100@openwrt.org> References: <1456496504-50429-4-git-send-email-blogic@openwrt.org> <20160226151813.GD12022@lunn.ch> <56D06E3F.1020100@openwrt.org> Message-ID: <20160226.123621.1711849052272895222.davem@davemloft.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org From: John Crispin Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:24:47 +0100 > the problem here is that on one side people complain about vendors not > sending code upstream. once they start being a good citizen and provide > funding to send stuff upstream the feedback tends to be very bad as seen > here. The feedback is not bad, on the contrary it is very positive and people like Andrew want to help people like you write proper switch drivers. If you were ignored, or rejected purely on the grounds of coding style issues, that would be "very bad" feedback.