From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: dwoods@mellanox.com, jh80.chung@samsung.com,
ulf.hansson@linaro.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] mmc: dw_mmc: Use device_property_read instead of" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.12-stable tree?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:30:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170728233007.GA30604@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7af0a2e-6351-2725-3c7e-be6fc7adf28e@mellanox.com>
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 09:52:57AM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> Ping? Greg, I see that you released 4.12.4/4.9.40 without these patches,
> but
> not having heard back from you, I wondered if my reply below was lost and we
> were both waiting on each other. Thanks!
No, it just went to the bottom of more important patches (i.e.
bugfixes.) I'll reconsider this at a later point in time when I get a
chance...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-28 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-24 23:32 WTF: patch "[PATCH] mmc: dw_mmc: Use device_property_read instead of" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.12-stable tree? gregkh
2017-07-25 1:22 ` Chris Metcalf
2017-07-25 14:48 ` Greg KH
2017-07-25 15:55 ` Chris Metcalf
2017-07-28 13:52 ` Chris Metcalf
2017-07-28 23:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-07-29 2:02 ` Chris Metcalf
2017-08-07 19:51 ` Greg KH
2017-08-07 21:01 ` Greg KH
2017-08-08 14:29 ` Chris Metcalf
2017-08-08 14:51 ` Greg KH
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