On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 03:48:17PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Saturday 22 January 2022 13:41:01 Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 04:41:42PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > Adding other Maemo developers...
> > > 
> > > On Saturday 22 January 2022 10:29:34 Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > This is perhaps as good/bad time as any to ask about the conversion
> > > > efforts for N900 USB things that were discussed before?
> > > 
> > > Perhaps it is also a good/bad time for reminding that some N900 U-Boot
> > > patches are waiting for review on the list? :-)
> > 
> > The last ones I saw weren't clear what it depended on and should get
> > re-posted.
> 
> And how should I or anybody else know this if nobody is responding to
> emails asking for review of pending patches?

I thought the last time you ping'd on it Lokesh was confused about what
this was on top of / required.

> > But I didn't see anything about the USB DM conversion.
> 
> Of course, as there are waiting other patches and other emails without
> replies, it is not a wise idea to start working on something other or
> starting discussion about something totally new if existing things are
> waiting for maintainers...

I believe it was someone else that is interested in N900 that said they
would look at it.

> I wanted to look at other stuff after pending patches are in accepted
> state. But I'm not superman to work on 10 parallel things at the same
> time and specially if I see that reviewing N900 patches is slow and
> takes about half of year.
> 
> If I see that maintainer is busy then I send just one patch and next
> after it is accepted. And not sending thousands of patches at the same
> time. If I would be in the "busy maintainer" position I also would not
> like to see thousands of patches waiting from other developers and
> rather would see one patch and after it is accepted then another patch.
> 
> So, could you please make a time and look at pending N900 patching?
> So we can move forward? I have feeling that this is repeating every year
> and the ball is not on my side.
> 
> For example I'm still waiting for reply for this email from July 2021:
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-July/455710.html
> 
> And sending reminder for another patch in December 2021 has no reply too:
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-December/468744.html

My problem is that re-reading those threads again just now leaves me at
"please re-base and re-post everything because it wasn't clear at all
what goes where".  My only other feedback is that it would I think be
better to move and then update the documentation, not improve, migrate,
improve more.

-- 
Tom