On Saturday 26 April 2008, you wrote:Linus just can't tell you directly to send him pull requests for patches touching kernel areas which are (or are supposed to be) maintained by other people but he isn't going to ignore properly justified git pull requests (see below). Also you may try this for your changes: * set -mm like tree containing all pending patches (+ ask for inclusion into -next tree and -mm tree) * send tree status updates to LKML (w/ some "marketing") regularly * send git pull requests to Linus with changes ACK-ed by relevant parties or lacking feedback (> 1 month timeout) Please send a git pull request with v850 removal to Linus noting that: * the code has been broken for ages (since 2.6.19) and maintainer cannot be even reached, according to MAINTAINERS: UCLINUX FOR NEC V850 P: Miles Bader * the patch was posted multiple times (first 3 months ago) and there were no complains * you've got an ACK from Greg Ungerer and you may add mine (FWIW, ACK-s from other arch maintainers would be more valuable), also back in February Ingo was positive about removing v850 port and suggested adding info about it to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt as a prerequisite for the removal (unfortunately it hasn't happened?) Nobody questions quality of your patches - the problem is that they are spread all over the tree and are likely to conflict with other people's trees. Setting your own tree and putting it into -next tree seems like a best solution for this. It should also help in preventing duplicated work / patches getting lost. Thanks, Bart --
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