On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 01:07:56AM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > I have a small question about the topic "how to reduce the workload for you". > We send the patch which should integrate batman-adv into net/ around two > weeks > ago to David S. Miller and the net...@vger mailing list [1]. Some hours later > Hagen Paul Pfeifer responded with some questions and different ideas - which > we (batman developers and Henning Rogge from olsr) either answered and/or > started to discuss them. > > The problem is that the discussion stopped quite fast... actually there was > only one mail from the netdev guys. This is quite irritating to me and the > question arose whether we did something terrible wrong when we send the patch.
Nope, you all did fine. > Maybe you could give us a small hint how to proceed further. If we should > wait, poke around or maybe submit it in a completely different way. It is not > about "getting it into net right away", but we would really like to get some > responses so we can work on it to make it better. > > batman-adv works quite well for us - but that doesn't mean that it is good in > context of the current kernel development. And who should know it better than > the netdev guys. Try sending it again after a few more days with the comment, "everything is addressed in the last round of comments" somewhere in it. Persistance is key :) thanks, greg k-h
