From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>
Cc: "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
david@lang.hm, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:41:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104011441.38902.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinmoTyceJCT+K-RCm4NC76qfDyeVw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 31 March 2011, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Just look at the removal of AAEC2000, LH7A40x and 2000 lines from the
> > mach-types file removed 6000 lines, which in itself is about the number
> > of lines of change submitted during the last merge window for any one
> > non-ARM architecture. At this point in time with this complaint, I've
> > absolutely no idea why I bothered to do that. I should've left it well
> > alone and then the diffstat percentage would've been smaller. After
> > all, it's "pointless churn".
>
> I think you did it because it was the Right Thing To Do. Even
> positive change can be painful at times.
>
> The majority is exceedingly grateful for the effort you make.
Defintely. I haven't seen anyone in this thread blame Russell for the
mess. As far as I'm concerned, the code in arch/arm consists of
the well-maintained {mm,kernel,lib,common,tools,include} directories
that are actively being taken care of by Russell, and a huge amount
of crap that has accumulated in mach-* and plat-*. Some of it is
arguably better than other parts, but the problem is not that someone
in particular did a bad job writing the code. The problem is that
nobody today is pushing back hard enough on crap getting added.
There is a lot of good work going on to reduce the amount of crap in
the mach code, but my feeling is that it's not keeping up with the
rate of crap getting added by other people. In some ways, the Linaro
project has actually made this worse by helping people get their code
into shape for inclusion (which of course is generally a good thing
to do).
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-01 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 159+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 18:30 [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window Tony Lindgren
2011-03-18 2:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-18 7:06 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-18 10:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-18 11:13 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-03-30 17:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-30 20:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 21:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-30 23:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 23:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 0:15 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-31 0:31 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-03-31 0:39 ` david
2011-03-31 3:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 3:29 ` Dave Airlie
2011-03-31 4:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 9:54 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-31 10:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 12:23 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-03-31 12:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-31 13:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 14:55 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-04-01 12:41 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-03-31 18:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-03-31 18:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 18:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2011-03-31 13:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 17:22 ` david
2011-03-31 18:08 ` Koen Kooi
2011-03-31 5:05 ` david
2011-03-31 7:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 8:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-31 8:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 10:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-31 13:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 12:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 14:43 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-03-31 15:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 15:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 15:45 ` david
2011-03-31 15:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 16:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 18:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 18:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-01 11:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 20:35 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-04-01 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 7:32 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-01 11:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 11:55 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-01 12:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 12:15 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-03-31 16:03 ` david
2011-03-31 16:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 19:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 22:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-01 0:53 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-01 4:50 ` David Brown
2011-04-01 7:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-01 13:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <4D95E112.4020400@vollmann.ch>
2011-04-01 14:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <4D95EF8E.9080902@vollmann.ch>
2011-04-01 15:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 17:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-01 19:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-01 21:00 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-04-01 22:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-02 2:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-03 15:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-03 16:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-04 0:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-04 8:26 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-04-04 11:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-04 11:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-04 13:24 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-04-04 13:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-04 13:57 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-04-04 20:08 ` Linus Walleij
2011-04-05 6:40 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-04-05 7:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-05 14:15 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-05 22:16 ` Linus Walleij
2011-04-06 6:43 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-04-05 22:22 ` Linus Walleij
2011-04-06 6:41 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-04-05 7:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 13:38 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-02 2:59 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-04 5:16 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-04-04 9:27 ` Nicolas Ferre
2011-04-01 21:10 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-04-01 21:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 21:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-03 22:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-04 0:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-04 2:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-01 15:27 ` Will Deacon
2011-04-01 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-03 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-05 23:19 ` Linus Walleij
2011-04-06 8:41 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-07 1:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 20:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-02 4:38 ` Richard Cochran
2011-04-02 3:27 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-06 6:11 ` Barry Song
2011-04-06 7:31 ` Bryan Wu
2011-03-31 21:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 17:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 18:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 8:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 10:49 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-03-31 18:00 ` Alexander Holler
2011-03-31 5:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-03-31 7:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 22:08 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 21:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-30 21:54 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 22:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-30 22:45 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 22:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-01 1:42 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-30 22:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-30 22:47 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 23:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-30 23:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-30 23:28 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-31 11:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-03-31 13:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 21:44 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 22:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-30 22:39 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-31 0:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 0:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 1:15 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-03-31 1:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 1:44 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-03-31 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 2:20 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-03-31 3:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 6:42 ` Olof Johansson
2011-03-31 6:56 ` David Brown
2011-03-31 11:27 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-03-31 13:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 4:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 10:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-30 21:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-30 22:14 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-04-01 1:17 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-01 14:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-18 3:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-18 7:09 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-18 8:06 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-03-18 23:43 ` Tony Lindgren
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