[PATCH] rtc: Allow rtc drivers to specify the tv_nsec value for ntp

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 07:44:11PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 27/11/2017 at 17:52:54 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > I'm actually rather disappointed that Alexandre Belloni has only now
> > brought up his dis-satisfaction with the approach after all the effort
> > that Jason and myself have put in to it.  It's not like Alexandre was
> > not copied on the patches and discussion.
> > 
> > If Alexandre could not be bothered to bring up his concerns while the
> > discussion was on-going in September, and didn't bother raising them
> > in October, I'd say that Alexandre's opinion at this point doesn't
> > count for much - if it wasn't important to state at the time or for
> > a couple of months after, why does it become important to state after
> > the thing has been merged.
> > 
> > Maybe the idea here is basically to waste people's time letting them
> > develop a patch for an approach, and then object at the last minute
> > to that approach.  Hardly seems fair or even reasonable.
> > 
> 
> How unfair that is! Really, you are not in a position to make that kind
> of comment because you are not even replying to patches in your own
> subsystem. But maybe my time doesn't count as much as yours.

You are, yet again, wrong.

I am in a position to make the comment because it was me who identified
the problem, put in the hours to work on, develop and extensively test
Jason's patch.  So, it's partly my time that you seem to be wasting,
and that gives me every right to complain at this point.

You, on the other hand, were copied with every single email, and did
nothing to discuss the issue except for the "easy" bits when I posted
a relatively smaller patch - but you ignored the bigger issue.

Now that the patch was merged, you throw your toys out of the pram and
start blaming everyone else for "silently" merging the patch and how it
wasn't sent to the right email addresses.

And now that someone dare criticise your abilities, you decide to revert
the change and restore Linux back to a crippled state.

Honestly, I don't _care_ if you revert it and if you want to cripple
the kernel as a result in regards to this issue, I can carry the patch
ad infinitum, no skin off my back.  You're only going to be hurting
yourself and other people through your spite by doing that revert.

I suggest you take a good long hard look at what you're about to do and
ask whether you are being reasonable, given that it's taken you over
two months whole months to raise any _technical_ issues with the approach
that Jason and myself came up with.

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