Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:54:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Alpha setup.c was forgotten |
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On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > Pre-patch 108 forgot to revert /proc damage. > BTW, should the samba.anu.edu.au system be in a Bcc or Cc?
Applied.
And no, I'd prefer small "fixes of the day" to make it into just email first. I can handle them more efficiently because I don't need to look for things in multiple places (website and my "kernel-patches" mailbox), and I don't need to bother with marking them applied etc.
HOWEVER, my normal mailbox is most convenient for me exactly because it is so "uncontrolled", and that is also what occasionally means that the patches never get applied, or similar problems. So I'd prefer the samba.any.edu.au tracking system:
- for patches that are non-trivial (ie things I may have to actually think about - when that happens my mailbox becomes a much more risky proposition)
- patches that you feel that I have already overlooked, and that you suspect didn't make it through my mailbox alive.
but if you have a small thing like this patch, I'd certainly prefer to first see it in email, and if I react to it within days I'd rather then not later see it at all on the patch web-site because then it would just have cluttered up the "more important" patches there.
Also, please realize that I read email every day (modulo travels etc), and that I look at the website only twice a week or something like that (unless somebody marks some patch urgent on the web-site, in which case I get personal notification about it - in email). So if you think the web-site is a "fast-track to Linus", that's not how it works. It's more a "stately but much more dependable" track.
Hope that clarified the issue (and linux-kernel Cc'd to let others know my feelings on this too).
Linus
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