From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761780AbYDZTU7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:20:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757643AbYDZTUw (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:20:52 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:12273 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753030AbYDZTUv (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:20:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=WsFLZJx7uHwsl5arCdBm03HncHJcpFJTzTwPgbkQWUkaz4JuZLLAZlY8d95lcXzkFN6Kb/NbOqq6NnXFwgdiszLOJ9g3/glCMFauB+NU5HMlvc90jgOsBY/lmVqZyvF138k4sxAkkxxlOEV7WYtt83gasJx6Ts9vdOzgS3u3Hgs= Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit From: Harvey Harrison To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linus Torvalds , LKML In-Reply-To: <20080426110044.GB2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1209190455.14173.13.camel@brick> <20080426110044.GB2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:20:55 -0700 Message-Id: <1209237655.14173.29.camel@brick> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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