From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757577Ab1CRXKR (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:10:17 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:36363 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756252Ab1CRXKM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:10:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ORkioypgYfkTh4vXPOurkD/MPBKx8FN9l4Mzr04tPv8LYdiQtZ5wWvKBgYxGVShAxw 76npJ1tslUXdZDVqiG+lesIBSfo6fRK+yszR6BuOg3zr7RECo2MUyB6KqPpKLQGuAbWL d0jC87BLsNb/2STvUWRJ7zzSXxnHncnNkyBxk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110318225016.GB15921@suse.de> References: <20110318221606.26841.92271.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110318225016.GB15921@suse.de> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:10:10 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9KzfBB4jfQVT7aXcRQFfsEDdVNc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware/efi: export a routine to retrieve efi-variables by GUID From: Dan Williams To: Greg KH Cc: Dave Jiang , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jacek.danecki@intel.com, ed.ciechanowski@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmilburn@redhat.com, edmund.nadolski@intel.com, Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> Not sure who looks after efivars.c, but get_maintainer.pl and git shortlog >> fingered Greg as a likely target. > > Yes, that is me. Sorry Greg, didn't mean to refer to you in the third person. > >> We are currently targeting a late merge of the isci driver through the >> staging tree into 2.6.39.  This is a pre-requisite to be able to use the >> driver on an efi enabled platform. > > You are?  That's news to me, why didn't you ask the staging tree > maintainer about this? This was a very recent, two days ago discussion on linux-scsi [1] with Jeff and Christoph that you should have been copied on... > I needed all patches in linux-next _before_ the merge window opened to > be able to accept it. Yes, I know, and as dmaengine maintainer I also hate being ambushed by last minute patches, but now I am unfortunately one of those annoying people on the other side of the coin. The review has been intermittent until very recently. Given that fact, James was understandably not ready to take it into drivers/scsi/. So the thought was to leave time for the review to pan out and then attempt a post -rc1 merge through scsi or staging. > So, sorry, it will have to wait until .40. > Please send me the isci driver and I will be glad to queue it up for > staging for that kernel. We will submit a revised driver in the next few weeks. -- Dan [1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=130022318906252&w=2