Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 06 Oct 2002 04:13:17 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: New BK License Problem? |
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Skip Ford wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>I don't do any pre-patches or daily patches any more, because it's all >>automated. There are several snapshot bots that give you patches a lot >>more often than "every 2 days". You don't need BK to use it, it's there >>in the good old diff format. > > > However, a much larger percentage of patches are applied to your tree > without a diff being posted to lkml first.
IMO this is very incorrect -- the high volume submitters have never posted their stuff to lkml when sending to Linus. BK did not change this at all. Andrew is the notable exception. [1]
> My only wish would be that > you only accept patches through the mailing list,
that won't work for many reasons... lots of uninteresting patches posted to lkml, security patches should go out-of-band, etc. Do you _really_ want to see boring and huge arch merges posted to lkml? Ug. :)
Jeff
[1] One might argue that Ingo is another exception, but I don't count him among the high-volume submitters. This is not intended to diminish him, either: Ingo probably has one of the highest "important/trivial" patch ratios of anybody in the kernel...
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