Re: How long to wait on patches?

["Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Matt LaPlante wrote:
> 
> > I checked the FAQ but didn't see an answer to this.  Over the past
few weeks 
> > I've submitted probably around 8 simple typo-fix patches all of
which seemed 
> > to be approved by others on the list.  I've been following the GIT,
but these 
> > patches haven't been merged yet.  I know people are busy with other
things, 
> > probably more important, but I would like to know how long is
"acceptable" to 
> > wait before I should re-submit a patch.  Obviously if enough time
passes, 
> > patches start to break as source files change.  I don't mean to be a
nuisance; 
> > I'm just trying to determine proper protocol.  That and the fact I
can submit 
> > several more patches once I get some of these old ones out of my
queue. :)
> 
> be sure to watch the -mm tree as well, a lot of patches are picked up
by Andrew 
> to be fed to Linus that way
> 
> this is a particularly bad week since almost all the core developers
were up at 
> OLS.
> 
> one thing you may want to look at doing (hosting permitting) is to
setup a git 
> tree to just hold your trivial patches so that they can be pulled easily.
> 
> I thought there was a person who was maintaining a -trivial tree for this 
> purpose, I don't remember who it was though.


Yes, Adrian Bunk accepts and forwards trivial patches. See
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/trivial/

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~Randy