Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Al Viro
2008-02-12T21:08:44Z

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> I can run the numbers, but almost every one of those changes has at
> least 2 signed-off-by: on them, so they should all be being reviewed
> properly.
>
> > AFAICS, we are in situation when review bandwidth is where the bottleneck
> > is. Not the merge one...
>
> Are there still large numbers of posted patches, not reviewed or picked
> up by anyone laying around somewhere? I thought Andrew-the-patch-vacuum
> had been doing a great job of keeping that from happening lately.

Er... Surely you can think of examples of patches that went through
-mm without serious review? Not to mention that 2 S-o-B normally
means only one thing: "went to Linus through some tree". Which does
not guarantee any real review, as you damn well know.