From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:27:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] arm: vt8500: Add support for Wondermedia WM8750/WM8850 In-Reply-To: <1357758570.27076.8.camel@gitbox> References: <1356650452-16559-1-git-send-email-linux@prisktech.co.nz> <1357758570.27076.8.camel@gitbox> Message-ID: <201301092127.05804.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 09 January 2013, Tony Prisk wrote: > I'm quite happy to send a pull request if that's what you prefer. > > Generally people have just taken the patches straight from email, so > everytime I've done a pull-request I get a reply back saying the patches > have already been applied. > > Is there some 'rule' around pull-requests vs emailed patches? Generally, pull requests tend to be less work for us, so I prefer them. In particular, when you add a tag description or a signed tag, that gives automatically puts nice text into the merge changeset. > Should patches in pull-requests have Ack'd lines already? Yes. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934273Ab3AIV1R (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:27:17 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:61668 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933273Ab3AIV1P (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:27:15 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Tony Prisk Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm: vt8500: Add support for Wondermedia WM8750/WM8850 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:27:05 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.7.0-7-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Olof Johansson , arm@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel@googlegroups.com References: <1356650452-16559-1-git-send-email-linux@prisktech.co.nz> <1357758570.27076.8.camel@gitbox> In-Reply-To: <1357758570.27076.8.camel@gitbox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201301092127.05804.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:Jp5ekt/YEEawfZIXZK5/OPvbCVgF/vVR6SE0T/QQDJB 3WRN0BYmYGQyRkzRj32CHXSmhjpvpH3EWYVKs8L6YNL5xQz86h B7OvQ0KJHkTFV+4mNBHgTE3uQpfWNLFWHUwz5Kwk9lo4jfjwyG vA/7jR3Q80FNtCLtPU6Ez8gdY+y6Db5bYs+zhGjM5CfNN91H0c LMsfGZjpnUysdoTWqGWKrT0M9IY/7RBa98ykUSgbJGQZnKS4Fs Z9FIk00NaraffRanJAprxlNjWTZSwsGEAAEZ9IJqU0rEI0s6s0 rXVoERofZa3PTCbBCHVPbDEwOURec4fhCMyBh0yg+4lzdALzM/ aIqv4JlbXwBJSyhHT9L8= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 09 January 2013, Tony Prisk wrote: > I'm quite happy to send a pull request if that's what you prefer. > > Generally people have just taken the patches straight from email, so > everytime I've done a pull-request I get a reply back saying the patches > have already been applied. > > Is there some 'rule' around pull-requests vs emailed patches? Generally, pull requests tend to be less work for us, so I prefer them. In particular, when you add a tag description or a signed tag, that gives automatically puts nice text into the merge changeset. > Should patches in pull-requests have Ack'd lines already? Yes. Arnd