Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matt LaPlante" <> | Subject | RE: How long to wait on patches? | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:32:09 -0400 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Randy Dunlap [mailto:rdunlap@xenotime.net] > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:26 PM > To: Matt LaPlante; 'Randy Dunlap'; 'David Lang'; linux- > kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: How long to wait on patches? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Randy Dunlap [mailto:rdunlap@xenotime.net] > > > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:07 PM > > > To: David Lang; Matt LaPlante; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > Subject: Re: How long to wait on patches? > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Matt LaPlante wrote: > > > > > > > >[me] > > > > > > > > be sure to watch the -mm tree as well, a lot of patches are picked > up > > > by Andrew > > > > to be fed to Linus that way > > > > > > > > this is a particularly bad week since almost all the core developers > > > were up at > > > > OLS. > > > > > > > > one thing you may want to look at doing (hosting permitting) is to > > > setup a git > > > > tree to just hold your trivial patches so that they can be pulled > > > easily. > > > > > > > > I thought there was a person who was maintaining a -trivial tree for > > > this > > > > purpose, I don't remember who it was though. > > > > > > > > > Yes, Adrian Bunk accepts and forwards trivial patches. See > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/trivial/ > > > > > > --- > > > ~Randy > > > > Yes, my patches were CC'd to the trivial alias. I guess from what > I've read > > on that page that I should wait until after .18 to look for them in > the git? > > You mean in Linus's git tree? Adrian will have to answer that > question, although the answer is likely to be Yes. Linus recently > said that he accepts patches until -rc2 and after that he is > looking for stability and bug fixes for a final release, so > it could well be after 2.6.18 when they are merged. > > --- > ~Randy
Adrian has a trivial git tree which has been silent for a couple weeks too. This is part of the reason I was curious if the patches were still sitting in his inbox or if they'd been passed over. Of course, that's a question only he could answer.
- Matt
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