Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: If you want me to quit I will quit | | From | Harvey Harrison <> | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:20:55 -0700 | |
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:00 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > [BUILDFIX PATCH] au0828: debug is a poor global identifier
>
> Another issue for which I already sent a (slightly different) patch.
>
> Why not check the mailing list before duplicating work? [1]
>
I do generally try to check the mailing list to avoid this...but LKML
tends to be pretty busy. I also try to check the latest -git devel
tree for the affected area in case it's waiting to be pulled. In this
case it was so trivial I sent it directly to Linus.
In fact, I concentrate on looking at the sparse output because you
do such a good job of catching unnecessary exports/globals.
> And if you e.g. discover next that our x86 userspace headers in
> 2.6.25 (sic) are fucked up guess who already sent a patch last
> weekend... [2]
>
> Why do other people get over 100 checkpatch fixes into the tree at once
> or Linus applies patches directly bypassing the maintainers (like the
> one you sent just before [3], which I've also already sent before [4])
> but my patches bitrot forever?
And look how many of mine have been sitting in -mm for weeks because I
thought they should go through a maintainer/-mm. This was just annoying
as it was making my sparse builds quit, and I thought others might be in
the same boat.
Cheers,
Harvey
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