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[209.85.222.45]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u145sm12951503vsu.25.2021.11.17.00.24.24 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:24:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ua1-f45.google.com with SMTP id y5so4105538ual.7 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:24:24 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a9f:2431:: with SMTP id 46mr20823663uaq.114.1637137464301; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:24:24 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20211115155105.3797527-1-geert@linux-m68k.org> <480CE37B-FE60-44EE-B9D2-59A88FDFE809@fb.com> <78b2d093-e06c-ba04-9890-69f948bfb937@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:24:12 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v5.16-rc1 To: Nick Terrell Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Hector Martin , Peter Zijlstra , linux-pci , DRI Development , "open list:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Andrey Ryabinin , Stan Skowronek , Herbert Xu , Helge Deller , kasan-dev , Sergio Paracuellos , Anton Altaparmakov , linux-arm-msm , "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" , Joey Gouly , =?UTF-8?Q?Andr=C3=A9_Almeida?= , Linux ARM , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Parisc List , "linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net" , Randy Dunlap , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rob Clark , Linux Crypto Mailing List , linuxppc-dev Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Hi Nick, On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:20 AM Nick Terrell wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2021, at 6:05 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote= : > > On 11/16/21 5:59 PM, Nick Terrell wrote: > >> I=E2=80=99ll send the PR to Linus tomorrow. I=E2=80=99ve been informed= that it > >> isn't strictly necessary to send the patches to the mailing list > >> for bug fixes, but its already done, so I=E2=80=99ll wait and see if t= here > >> is any feedback. > > > > IMO several (or many more) people would disagree with that. > > > > "strictly?" OK, it's probably possible that almost any patch > > could be merged without being on a mailing list, but it's not > > desirable (except in the case of "security" patches). > > Good to know! Thanks for the advice, I wasn=E2=80=99t really sure what > the best practice is for sending patches to your own tree, as I > didn't see anything about it in the maintainer guide. All patches must be sent to public mailing lists for review. You might get away with not doing that for a simple and trivial fix, but be prepared to end up on people's "special" lists if you did get it wrong. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k= .org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. Bu= t when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t= hat. -- Linus Torvalds