From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751075AbWFTVuy (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:50:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751122AbWFTVuy (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:50:54 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.182]:63457 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751075AbWFTVux (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:50:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=o7UNO0uAiW3gVVBklBd+fCewnx0wVwnH2txeV+lzrAlRZFQB735qDN0GoFmfkppOVjIESWoIj2N2vxNunptvUAeYYeZsMe9S3QecSAj/RWW6yMuPBaw6syYUIl+nG0ESTWynG+Oos4psu51LBRxANTfxr4paBfCQCG+io/lHUh0= Message-ID: <44986DBB.2040206@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:50:51 -0600 From: Jim Cromie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch -mm 20/20 RFC] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add sysfs-GPIO interface References: <448DB57F.2050006@gmail.com> <44944D14.2000308@gmail.com> <20060619222223.8f5133a9.akpm@osdl.org> <44985321.3020609@gmail.com> <20060620131440.9c9b0999.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <44985D51.8050200@gmail.com> <20060620135249.7f13d042.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20060620135249.7f13d042.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:40:49 -0600 Jim Cromie wrote: > > >> Randy.Dunlap wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:57:21 -0600 Jim Cromie wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Andrew Morton wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:42:28 -0600 >>>>> Jim Cromie wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Fixup patches agains next -mm would be suitable. Please keep them >>>>> super-short: basically one-patch-per-review-comment. That way I can easily >>>>> instertion-sort the patches into place and we retain a nice patch series. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> OK. Just so Im clear, Ill patch against the tail of the set (ie -mm1), >>>> and you'll push them forward into the >>>> >>>> >>> WTH? "you'll" ?? >>> >>> >>> >> are we talking apostrophes here, or division of labor ? >> If the latter, what have I missed ? >> Andrew specifically said 'patch against next -mm', I intended to follow >> his instructions. >> > > apostrophes :) > > oops :) I guess youll is just too visually grating > and ISTM that you didn't follow his request. > > --- > ~Randy > > are you referring to the replacement patch for 20/20 ? The one that said RFC ?? heh - youre right, tho :-} I retract that patch. Forgive the over-wound (and in retrospect, kinda stunned) newbie ! I'll spend some time making the Doc more coherent, and into an actual patch. I guess I was hoping for some comments before doing this.. Whats a good name for this file? (for purposes of focusing the tone and content) Doc/sysfs/gpio-interface ? Doc/hwmon/gpio-sysfs-interface ? thanks ! Jim Cromie