From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933107AbZJHUBn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:01:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933076AbZJHUBl (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:01:41 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42275 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933069AbZJHUBj (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:01:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:00:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: James Bottomley cc: Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1254844007.4383.85.camel@mulgrave.site> <1254862442.4383.183.camel@mulgrave.site> <1255012399.4187.24.camel@mulgrave.site> <1255031298.4187.260.camel@mulgrave.site> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What part of "sure, I'll take new drivers after the merge window, but COME > &*^@ ON!" do you have trouble understanding? Put another way: look at the drivers/staging tree. Look at when it gets merged. Do this: git diff --stat v2.6.31-rc1..v2.6.31 drivers/staging/ and then do this: git diff --stat v2.6.30..v2.6.31-rc1 drivers/staging/ adn thing about the fact that they are _all_ "new drivers". Then consider the issue of "merge window" vs "not merge window". It really boils down to the fact that I'm perfectly happy to let new drivers slip in after the merge window in order to help end users. But really - there has to be a limit to it. Not just anything. It has to help end users, and dammit, you have to admit that 50 kloc is damn well not just "another random driver". Linus