Re: 2.6.17-rc2-mm1

Randy.Dunlap
2006-04-27T21:47:53Z

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:41:52 +1000 Grant Coady wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:19:30 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> 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.

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~Randy