Re: Getting things in... Was: Re: shifts on 64bit ints

[David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>]

>>>>> Tom Gall writes:

>> linuxppc-dev is not necessarily a patch submission mailinglist.
>> Until PowerPC Linux development has such a thing, I think that it is
>> better to coordinate with and directly send patches to someone with
>> write-access who can apply the patches instead of throwing them up in the
>> air and hoping that someone catches them.

Tom> This can be a good thing or a bad thing tho. I'd rather like to see
Tom> patches posted to the list. Granted there's some line there where they
Tom> simply get too big and a link is better. At least with posting to the
Tom> list everyone has the chance to comment and better yet test them out!

	I did not mean to send patches to someone *instead* of sending
them to the mailinglist.  I meant that sending them to the mailinglist
solely as a way of proposing that a patch be merged into the development
tree does not make it clear what action should be taken.

David


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