From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg.freemyer@gmail.com (Greg Freemyer) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:47:48 -0400 Subject: surviving in lkml In-Reply-To: <11829D72-423B-4145-A823-AD69AB0FC0DE@gmail.com> References: <1569355E-AFE3-4497-8E50-1D71C1A0D3DE@gmail.com> <20110602065748.GA20919@kroah.com> <11829D72-423B-4145-A823-AD69AB0FC0DE@gmail.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 2011/6/2 Jo?o Eduardo Lu?s : > On Jun 2, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:51:45AM +0100, Jo?o Eduardo Lu?s wrote: >>> Quite nice presentation. Although I was hoping to see something >>> stating the correct protocol to repost a question to the list, either >>> because the previous one was ignored or just went by unnoticed. >> >> Just resend it. >> >> > > > Fair enough. > > Will do that, expecting not to be marked as spam by everybody whenever I'm way too persistent with something. :-) I don't follow lkml per se, but on the lkml associated lists I follow, people tend to wait at least a week, and sometimes several weeks. Then they just reply to the original email with "ping, any feedback on this?", or some other short message. Especially if you need a specific developer to look at something, or add it to their set of patches, it can take a while before they have time to review your patch. Greg