Re: [PATCH 2/2] suspend: Cleanup calling of power off methods.

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> 
>> I think you are not following the proper procedure. All the patches
>> should go through akpm.

Ok.  I thought it was fine to send simple and obviously correct bug
fixes to Linus.

> One issue is that I actually worry that Andrew will at some point be where 
> I was a couple of years ago - overworked and stressed out by just tons and 
> tons of patches. 
>
> Yes, he's written/modified tons of patch-tracking tools, and the git 
> merging hopefully avoids some of the pressures, but it still worries me. 
> If Andrew burns out, we'll all suffer hugely.
>
> I'm wondering what we can do to offset those kinds of issues. I _do_ like 
> having -mm as a staging area and catching some problems there, so going 
> through andrew is wonderful in that sense, but it has downsides.

It is especially challenging for people like me who typically work on
parts of the kernel without a maintainer.  So there frequently isn't
an intermediate I can submit my patches to.

Eric