Re: [patch] x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache()

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Apr 27 2008 - 20:45:43 EST


On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:31:27PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:31:06 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > You can post whatever patches you like a million times to lkml.
> > That's not the problem.
> >
> > It's that the patches don't get reviewed, posting them more or to a
> > different place doesn't help that.
>
> If you really want to enforce this, I bet it could be automated
> with scripts around git.
>
> Simply refuse to apply a patch that does not have at least two
> Signed-off-by/Reviewed-by/Acked-by lines and refuse to apply
> a "git pull" if there is a changeset like that in the tree.

Yeah, right.
commit 138fe4e069798d9aa948a5402ff15e58f483ee4e
Author: Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 9 19:50:41 2008 -0700

Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support
...
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
...
+static ssize_t sprintf_ipaddr(char *buf, u8 *ip)
+{
...
+ str += sprintf(str, NIP6_FMT, ntohs(ip[0]), ntohs(ip[1]),
+ ntohs(ip[2]), ntohs(ip[3]), ntohs(ip[4]),
+ ntohs(ip[5]), ntohs(ip[6]), ntohs(ip[7]));

are you going to tell me that this had been reviewed? Note these
ntohs() applied to 8bit values in there. Two signed-off-by, including
Greg "two s-o-b are enough to guarantee review"...
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