From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Anthony Foiani <tkil@scrye.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Enumerate the guidelines for stable patches.
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:52:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121201005225.GA19767@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gr4na1u02.fsf@dworkin.scrye.com>
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 05:44:13PM -0700, Anthony Foiani wrote:
>
> From: Anthony Foiani <anthony.foiani@gmail.com>
>
> Having recently received a formletter rejection on a stable patch, I
> found it difficult to determine exactly which guideline I had missed.
>
> Numbering the guidelines will allow the stable maintainer to quickly
> and easily indicate which guidelines have not been followed.
>
> The actual changes are only the addition of clause numbering, and the
> wishful thinking added to S15.
Is this really needed? For the large majority of the stable patches,
specifically enumerating this isn't a big deal, it's a tiny patch, and
if you think I'll remember to tell you which specific clause you didn't
follow, then you think I have more spare time than I really do.
Sorry, but no, I don't think this patch is ok, especially that S15
clause, nice try :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-01 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-01 0:44 [PATCH] Documentation: Enumerate the guidelines for stable patches Anthony Foiani
2012-12-01 0:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-12-01 1:02 ` Anthony Foiani
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20121201005225.GA19767@kroah.com \
--to=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=tkil@scrye.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox