[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] Your upstream maintainer just isn't that into you...

[Dan Carpenter]

Don't hint.  "On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle".
I'm one of the most prolific contributors and I'm being ignored by
the scsi list...  Are you referring to me?  ;)

I don't think it's James ignoring me.  For SCSI, the patch has to go
into the vendor driver first, otherwise in six months they are just
poop out a 40,000 line diff that reverts every bugfix which didn't
go through their tree.  In staging we NAK those patches, but I think
SCSI has a lot of inertia so it may be too late to change now.
James has a difficult and thankless job.  I wouldn't be able to deal
with it.

Part of problem of bogus patches we do to ourselves with
checkpatch.pl.  I've suggested that we add a message about not
wasting maintainer time.  https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/322

I had one staging net-kook who I blocked permanently, but that's
pretty rare.  He had lots of warnings and his patches were really
bad.  I've seen Greg and Dave Miller block people for a week or two.
"Your patch is unacceptably bad.  I'm am blocking your email address
for the next week."

regards,
dan carpenter