[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/8] sf: improve support of (Q)SPI flash memories

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 23:05:17 UTC 2017


On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> On 08/25/2017 06:28 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>>> On 08/25/2017 06:07 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Yang, Wenyou <Wenyou.Yang at microchip.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch set has been here for a long time, could you have a look and take
>>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I'm holding this because of my current spi-nor work. But anyway
>>>> I will try to merge on coming MW If all OK.
>>>
>>> Is your work posted somewhere or available in some git repository ?
>
> You did not answer this question.
>
>>> I don't see any reason why you should not perform your maintainer duties
>>> by reviewing/replying to an incoming patch, no matter what work you do
>>> to the subsystem though ...
>>
>> I didn't write "this series holding spi-nor work" since it has some
>> new features I'm taking time to review.
>
> I never implied this. Rather the opposite, you claim you do some work on
> the SPI NOR core, yet you let this patchset rot in the list for over a
> month now and gave the author zero feedback.
>
> Notifying the author about the core changes early could've prevented a
> lot of wasted effort on his side. Reviewing early could've prevented a
> lot of frustration from patches being ignored.
>
>> There is nothing wrong with
>> maintainer duties here, you must need to understand.
>
> I disagree.
>

I agree with Marek here. I found it's really hard to get feedback for
SF patches in time and what I have to do is to ping again and again.

Regards,
Bin


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