From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mailout4.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.14]:29662 "EHLO mailout4.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752106Ab2ITIeL (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:34:11 -0400 Received: from eusync3.samsung.com (mailout4.w1.samsung.com [210.118.77.14]) by mailout4.w1.samsung.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-24.01(7.0.4.24.0) 64bit (built Nov 17 2011)) with ESMTP id <0MAN00HBC3TWYP90@mailout4.w1.samsung.com> for linux-media@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:34:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from [106.116.147.32] by eusync3.samsung.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPA id <0MAN00KR23SXO040@eusync3.samsung.com> for linux-media@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:34:09 +0100 (BST) Message-id: <505AD500.3040408@samsung.com> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:34:08 +0200 From: Sylwester Nawrocki MIME-version: 1.0 To: Richard Zhao Cc: javier Martin , Philipp Zabel , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ezequiel_Garc=EDa?= Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Initial i.MX5/CODA7 support for the CODA driver References: <1347957978.2529.4.camel@pizza.hi.pengutronix.de> <20120920033206.GA9407@b20223-02.ap.freescale.net> <20120920080358.GB9407@b20223-02.ap.freescale.net> In-reply-to: <20120920080358.GB9407@b20223-02.ap.freescale.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/20/2012 10:03 AM, Richard Zhao wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:10:46AM +0200, javier Martin wrote: >> Hi Richard, >> >> On 20 September 2012 05:32, Richard Zhao wrote: >>> why is it a request-pull? >> >> After 5 version of Philipp's patches we have agreed they are good >> enough to be merged; they don't break anything related to the old >> codadx6 while provide support for the new coda7: >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/53627 >> >> The pull request is a way to tell Mauro this is ready to be merged in >> his linux-media tree and making things easier for him. > I know the meaning. I just feel strange. Pull request is normally sent > by maintainer to up level maintainer who agreed to receive pull request. There is really high volume of various kind of patches on linux-media mailing lists. Even with those pull requests it becomes hard for Mauro to respond and merge patches in timely manner. There is even a discussion related to this scheduled for media workshop during ELCE/LinuxCon. I think the rules may differ slightly across kernel subsystems, hence I find nothing unusual in using pull requests, especially by sub-subsystem maintainers or developers. Regards, Sylwester