From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758054AbYDGW3S (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:29:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753324AbYDGW3I (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:29:08 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47727 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753010AbYDGW3H (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:29:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:28:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jeff Garzik 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 Message-Id: <20080407152800.1a8e37fc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <47FA813D.6090505@garzik.org> References: <386072610804070057w1eb65db5taeca77f8f3e36627@mail.gmail.com> <47F9D7BA.6080708@garzik.org> <386072610804070115s57dfd49fgad01218e820167b@mail.gmail.com> <47FA813D.6090505@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:17:01 -0400 Jeff Garzik 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.