From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754616AbYDZL0x (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:26:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751445AbYDZL0p (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:26:45 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:60516 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbYDZL0p (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:26:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:27:17 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Harvey Harrison , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit Message-ID: <20080426112717.GA23248@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1209190455.14173.13.camel@brick> <20080426110044.GB2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080426110044.GB2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Adrian. > Why do other people get over 100 checkpatch fixes into the tree at once > or Linus applies patches directly bypassing the maintainers (like the > one you sent just before [3], which I've also already sent before [4]) > but my patches bitrot forever? The patches you submit touches all parts of the kernel tree. And you do a good job in finding the relevant receivers. To me you are partly in the saem situation as Andrew in that you handle a great deal of patches touching a lot of different subsystems. We all know that the patch acceptance ratio differ a lot between the different maintainers and the way Andrew deals with this seems quite effective. After enough tries Andrew just submit the pacthes himself direct to Linus. But almost never without trying to get the relevant Maintainer to take it first. So in your position I would keep all patches in a place so they can be sucked into -next and regular spam the relevant amintainers with their patches. When the merge window opens then submit the rest to Linus with a noe that they have been sent to Maintainers without any feedback previously. This is not far away from what you do now and should not create that big frustrations (I hope). Sam