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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: cooloney@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	magnus.damm@gmail.com, damm@igel.co.jp, lethal@linux-sh.org,
	nico@cam.org, vapier.adi@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Blackfin STAMP537 compiling error in 2.6.25-rc8
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:28:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080407152800.1a8e37fc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FA813D.6090505@garzik.org>

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:17:01 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> Since it was an arch patch to a driver I cannot build, I made the 
> [mistaken] assumption that your sending it to me was an indication that 
> it should actually be merged :)  Especially with a subject like "fix 
> build breakage", for a platform I cannot easily build...
> 
> Are there any process tweaks that could be made here?  Maybe -mm stuff 
> sent to maintainers could be tagged, noting dependencies on other -mm 
> patches that are not yet upstream?

Well.  It really helps if submitters tell us that a patch fixes another
pending patch, and which one that is.  Usually Ihave to ask if I can't work
it out.


But if a) we weren't told that and b) I have no reason to think it's not a
mainline problem and c) the patch applies to mainline and d) the patch
affects an architecture which I'm not cross-compiling for, it's going to
sneak through.

Fortunately, a && b && c && d doesn't happen at all often.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07  7:57 Blackfin STAMP537 compiling error in 2.6.25-rc8 Bryan Wu
2008-04-07  8:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-07  8:15   ` Bryan Wu
2008-04-07 20:17     ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-07 22:28       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-08  2:08       ` Bryan Wu

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