From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:27:17 +0000 Subject: Re: rfc: trivial patches and slow deaths? Message-Id: <1376947637.2016.39.camel@joe-AO722> List-Id: References: <1376944033.2016.13.camel@joe-AO722> <1376946644.2016.35.camel@joe-AO722> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jiri Kosina Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 23:22 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Joe Perches wrote: > > > This is a 7 line patch that corrects logging defects that has had no > > reply from you for the last month. > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2833648/ > > This hasn't missed any Linus' major release, as it has been submitted post > 3.11 merge, right? (hint, that was Jul 4th). > > If this would miss *next* major Linus' release, I would accept your > complaints. But this is definitely not the case. You're suggesting this patch, which corrects obvious defects, should miss 3.12 and go into 3.13? I think that's wrong. I think it should be in -next now. It's not. What should any patch submitter expect about visibility and/or knowledge of the applicability of this sort of patch from trivial?