Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Release Policy | Date | 26 Nov 2001 17:32:18 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20011126.171301.50592818.davem@redhat.com> By author: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:04:02 -0800 > > Marcelo, if someone sends you a patch which has not been thoroughly > reviewed on the appropriate mailing list, I would urge you to > peremptorily shitcan it. There is no reason why you alone should > be responsible for reviewing kernel changes. > > Are you suggesting that, for example, I should send every Sparc change > to this list? >
appropriate != this.
> I bet a lot of what he is seeing are driver and arch updates. > > Such updates really only need to go through his "stupid filter" > when it is coming from the maintainer, but it does add up and > take up time.
Obviously. If it's for a maintained subsystem:
a) if it's from the subsystem maintainer, sanity-check it. b) if it's not, dump it or reject with the appropriate notice.
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