Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:12:55 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/31] sections: Fix section conflicts in drivers/hwmon |
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:59:11AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 04:23:04PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:30:05AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > > > Applied. > > > > Thanks. > > > Looks like you did not include maintainers and/or subject mailing lists in your > > patch series, so I guess you won't get much feedback. > > Tree sweeps like this normally don't go through individual mainainers, it's just > not practical. > That is not the point. For my part I still like to know what is going on, at the very least to be able to avoid conflicts, and some maintainers tend to get a bit tense if they are not informed. Besides, I would consider it to be a common courtesy to inform maintainers about activity related to their area of responsibility.
If you want the patch to go through some other tree, fine with me; I can drop it and give it an Ack. Your e-mail does not mention a target tree, though, and my psychic capabilities seem to be a bit erratic lately ;).
Guenter
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