Re: No pull for mtd?

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 22:33 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > Normally though, I use Artem's l2-mtd tree a bit like patchwork. He
> > hoovers up most things from the list and even does some preliminary
> > fixes on them — so it's *much* more convenient for me than raw
> patchwork
> > would be. And it's close *enough* to what I'm actually going to
> accept,
> > that it's reasonable for it to be in linux-next as it is.
> 
> I guess I didn't fully grasp the relation between you and Artem. It
> seemed to me like Artem's tree was practically the pull request tree,
> that his status as "not the maintainer" simply gave him the luxury to
> rebase more freely, and that your sign-off (or sometimes pull request
> w/o adding sign-offs) was mostly just a rubber stamp.

Well, something like this. Depending on the load, David either sends my
tree to Linus almost intact, or goes through it patch-by-patch and does
real review: amends some, rejects some, etc.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy