Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:25:37 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Serial maintainership |
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:38:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-09-08 at 16:52 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > I notice DaveM's taken over serial maintainership. Please arrange for > > serial patches to be sent to davem in future, thanks. (All ARM serial > > drivers are broken as of Tuesday.) > > > > I might take a different view if I at least had a curtious CC: of the > > patch, which I had already asked akpm to reject. > > > > Thanks. That's another subsystem I don't have to care about anymore. > > Please remember to send Linus a patch updating MAINTAINERS if so.
Well, it appears that we're fast approaching meltdown in kernel land - patches are being applied despite maintainers objection, maintainers are not being copied with changes in their area, etc.
I might mind less with the occasional slip up if it was occasional, but it doesn't appear to be anymore - maybe not from my perspective.
This morning Andi Kleen stated:
"normally he (akpm) asks you before finally sending them off - then you can complain again"
I don't appear to be asked by akpm - patches from -mm are sent to Linus CC'd me, and that occurs during the night. Come the morning, they're in Linus tree so unless one is awake reading email 24 hours a day, it's impossible to "complain again".
Is there a concerted effort to maintainers? It certainly seems so from my perspective.
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