From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Staging: batman-adv for 2.6.36 (3)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:40:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100709234004.GA12128@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007100107.57451.sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 01:07:56AM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> I have a small question about the topic "how to reduce the workload for you".
> We send the patch which should integrate batman-adv into net/ around two weeks
> ago to David S. Miller and the netdev@vger mailing list [1]. Some hours later
> Hagen Paul Pfeifer responded with some questions and different ideas - which
> we (batman developers and Henning Rogge from olsr) either answered and/or
> started to discuss them.
>
> The problem is that the discussion stopped quite fast... actually there was
> only one mail from the netdev guys. This is quite irritating to me and the
> question arose whether we did something terrible wrong when we send the patch.
Nope, you all did fine.
> Maybe you could give us a small hint how to proceed further. If we should
> wait, poke around or maybe submit it in a completely different way. It is not
> about "getting it into net right away", but we would really like to get some
> responses so we can work on it to make it better.
>
> batman-adv works quite well for us - but that doesn't mean that it is good in
> context of the current kernel development. And who should know it better than
> the netdev guys.
Try sending it again after a few more days with the comment, "everything
is addressed in the last round of comments" somewhere in it.
Persistance is key :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-25 22:28 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Staging: batman-adv for 2.6.36 (2) Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-25 22:28 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/8] Staging: batman-adv: Convert names from Java to C style Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-25 22:28 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/8] Staging: batman-adv: Avoid rounding issues for local hna timeout Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-25 22:28 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/8] Staging: batman-adv: Lower resolution for timeouts Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-25 22:28 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 4/8] Staging: batman-adv: replace manual calculation by msecs_to_jiffies() for better readability Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-25 22:28 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 5/8] Staging: batman-adv: Add sysfs abi documentation about bonding Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-25 22:28 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 6/8] Staging: batman-adv: adapting source version to revised versioning scheme Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-25 22:28 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 7/8] Staging: batman-adv: Add include guards to all header files Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-25 22:28 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 8/8] Staging: batman-adv: fix early debugfs deinitialization Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-26 0:36 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Staging: batman-adv for 2.6.36 (3) Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-26 0:36 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/2] Staging: batman-adv: Allow to build it inside the kernel Sven Eckelmann
2010-06-26 0:36 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/2] Staging: batman-adv: Remove dependency to PROCFS Sven Eckelmann
2010-07-06 13:04 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Staging: batman-adv for 2.6.36 (3) Sven Eckelmann
2010-07-06 15:20 ` Greg KH
2010-07-06 15:36 ` Sven Eckelmann
2010-07-06 16:17 ` Greg KH
2010-07-09 23:07 ` Sven Eckelmann
2010-07-09 23:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-07-10 0:42 ` Daniel Seither
2010-07-10 8:40 ` Sven Eckelmann
2010-07-10 8:54 ` Henning Rogge
2010-07-10 9:09 ` Sven Eckelmann
2010-07-10 9:59 ` Daniel Seither
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