From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751712AbWD0Vrx (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:47:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751713AbWD0Vrx (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:47:53 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:40648 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751710AbWD0Vrx (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:47:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:50:17 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Grant Coady Cc: akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc2-mm1 Message-Id: <20060427145017.f35c906f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20060427014141.06b88072.akpm@osdl.org> <20060427121930.2c3591e0.akpm@osdl.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:41:52 +1000 Grant Coady wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:19:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >I don't like dropping patches. Because then the thing needs to be fixed up > >and resent and remerged and re-reviewed and rejects need to re-fixed-up and > >this adds emailing overhead and 12-24 hour turnaround, etc. I very much > >prefer to hang onto the patch and get it fixed up. This means that I > >usually have to do the fixing-up. > > Perhaps dropping patches with obvious faults with some feedback > to submitter may reduce your workload ;) And is slowing down the > merge a little in these cases such a bad thing if it improves > patch quality over time? True dat. That's what I would do. :) But I seem to need more sleep than Andrew does. --- ~Randy