Re: [PATCH] s390: claw network device driver

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Was cc'ed to linux-net last Thursday, but it looks like the messages was
> > > too large and the vger server munched it.
> >
> > This also brings up a larger question... why was a completely unreviewed
> > net driver merged?
>
> Because nobody noticed that it didn't make it to the mailing list,
> obviously.
That's ducking the question.  Let me rephrase.

Why was a complete lack of response judged to be an ACK?

For new drivers, that's a -horrible- precedent.  You are quite skilled 
at poking random hackers :)  why not poke somebody to ack a new drivers? 
 It's not like this driver (or many of the other new drivers) 
desperately need to get into the kernel ASAP, so desperate that a lack 
of review was OK.
        Jeff