From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:37323 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753242AbYBLVIe (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:08:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:08:08 +0000 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) Message-ID: <20080212210808.GJ27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20080212044314.GA4888@kroah.com> <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080211.221126.230471463.davem@davemloft.net> <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <20080212174824.GA1919@kroah.com> <20080212191552.GA20883@kroah.com> <20080212194651.GI27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080212205051.GB21650@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080212205051.GB21650@kroah.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , David Miller , arjan@infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I can run the numbers, but almost every one of those changes has at > least 2 signed-off-by: on them, so they should all be being reviewed > properly. > > > AFAICS, we are in situation when review bandwidth is where the bottleneck > > is. Not the merge one... > > Are there still large numbers of posted patches, not reviewed or picked > up by anyone laying around somewhere? I thought Andrew-the-patch-vacuum > had been doing a great job of keeping that from happening lately. Er... Surely you can think of examples of patches that went through -mm without serious review? Not to mention that 2 S-o-B normally means only one thing: "went to Linus through some tree". Which does not guarantee any real review, as you damn well know.