Remove Ban?

Avinash Patil avinashapatil at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 01:50:35 EST 2014


Hi Nick,

I saw one of your patch to brcmfmac in Lunux wireless. For one such FIXME
you have added mutex lock; just because comment said need to have mutex
lock here.

You did not have any hardware to test this patch; you simply created patch
because comment said so.  Rafal and other maintainers were wondering-
"Really! Is this fixme that simple? How come we did not get it?" and then
it was discovered that function which is calling this one already was
having mutex lock and here you cannot acquire it again..
Rafal finally did not take that fix for obvious reason.

Patches should be submitted to just to create your portfolio but they
should actually solve some existing design problem.

Do I need to say more about your ban?

Thanks,
Avinash

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:32 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:15:13 -0500, nick said:
> >> Greetings Fellow Developers,
> >> I have finally learned my lesson as you can tell from my newest patches
> being
> >> accepted or considered in good form.
> >
> > Right now,all I'm seeing in linux-next from you is 2 patches that
> > remove FIXME comments.  Given your previous history of submitting
> > patches that failed to accurately analyze C program flow, And the
> > commit message on one of them:
> >
> >     Remove FIXME comments about needing fault addresses to be returned.
> These
> >     are propaagated from walk_addr_generic to gva_to_gpa and from there
> to
> >     ops->read_std and ops->write_std.
> >
> > doesn't actually address the question of how to deal with fault
> addresses.
> > Yes, they're propagated back - but it doesn't directly address the
> question
> > of how a fault address is handled (in other words, you failed to show
> that
> > write_std actually does the right thing once it gets whatever we send
> back)
> >
> > I wouldn't hold my breath....
> I submitted the patch. The maintainer changed the commit message not me.
> Nick
>
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