Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

[Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:00 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > [BUILDFIX PATCH] au0828: debug is a poor global identifier
> 
> Another issue for which I already sent a (slightly different) patch.
> 
> Why not check the mailing list before duplicating work? [1]
> 

I do generally try to check the mailing list to avoid this...but LKML
tends to be pretty busy.  I also try to check the latest -git devel
tree for the affected area in case it's waiting to be pulled.  In this
case it was so trivial I sent it directly to Linus.

In fact, I concentrate on looking at the sparse output because you
do such a good job of catching unnecessary exports/globals.

> And if you e.g. discover next that our x86 userspace headers in
> 2.6.25 (sic) are fucked up guess who already sent a patch last 
> weekend... [2]
> 
> Why do other people get over 100 checkpatch fixes into the tree at once 
> or Linus applies patches directly bypassing the maintainers (like the 
> one you sent just before [3], which I've also already sent before [4]) 
> but my patches bitrot forever?

And look how many of mine have been sitting in -mm for weeks because I
thought they should go through a maintainer/-mm.  This was just annoying
as it was making my sparse builds quit, and I thought others might be in
the same boat.

Cheers,

Harvey