Re: [PATCH 1/1] Removed Dead Code

[Michael Spradling <mike@mspradling.com>]

I know it takes more than a day to take a patch in, however I just wanted to know
a little more about the process.  Sorry about the 3 emails.  If you look at the
headers you will notice they are all from different email accounts.  I had trouble
with my email and I did not see my messages post to the mailing list. Thanks for
your advice and input....

I was just wondering how one checks the status of it.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:01:51PM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 19:12 -0500, Michael Spradling wrote:
> > Does anyone have any comments, how do I know if this patch is ever taken in...
> Yes (but perhaps not the one you expected;-).
> A review takes usually more than a day (since people tend to have other,
> higher priorities too). And BTW it doesn't speed up if you send the same
> 3 times without good reason (and if there is a good reason, there is no
> need to hide it). And the subject as above is *much* better (as it
> describes the intentions of the patch and not your personal ones) than
> the one on the 1st mail.
> 
> A good way to speed up the review process is to send the mail also
> directly to the relevant maintainers and interested people (and probably
> the big kernel-mailinglist. No need to subscribe it - it is expected
> that people use Reply-to-all and not delete any Cc:s - unless you really
> know what you do[0]). The simplest way is to use
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl to get a list of probably interested and
> *relevant* (read: subsystem maintainer) people/mailing-lists.
> 
> Even if 5 people review and ack-it hereover, it is no help as long as
> the maintainer(s) ignore it (or NACK it for whatever reason).
> 
> As for the patch as such: Not that I looked into the framebuffer
> driver(s) or anywhere else, but it's probably good to also mention why
> you believe that that functions are dead code.
> There basically two possibilities: Was in for ages and isn't used any
> longer or is needed for new features. And the subsystem maintainer
> should know (and I don't know - so I can't comment on it) .....
> 
> > Is there a server somewhere that shows integration status
> Not until you run one;-)
> You usually should get some feedback who is taking it and - depending on
> subsystem, it's maintainer, the length of the chain towards Linux,
> release dates, etc. - it eventually shows up in mainline and you may get
> some status mails before (e.g. AKPM has scripts which also report
> towards submitters - and reviewers IIRC).
> 
> 	Bernd
> 
> [0]: *If* you really know what you do, you will know it on your own.
>      Before, just stick to the rule;-)
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