From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753594AbbDHKfQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2015 06:35:16 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:55026 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753120AbbDHKfO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2015 06:35:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:35:12 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Lee Jones Cc: Eduardo Valentin , ajitpal.singh@st.com, rui.zhang@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patch "drivers: thermal: st: remove several sparse warnings" added to thermal-soc tree Message-ID: <20150408103512.GA17245@amd> References: <14284396653168@besouro> <20150408072634.GA5162@x1> <20150408091154.GB5646@amd> <20150408094507.GD5162@x1> <20150408095920.GA25790@amd> <20150408101616.GF5162@x1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150408101616.GF5162@x1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > > And there's no harm in having patch available in git for easy testing. > > > > > > If we weren't so deep into the release cycle, I'd agree with you. But > > > even if we weren't so close to the merge-window, I'd still expect a > > > note to the tune of "tentatively applying this for reason X for early > > > soak testing in -next". Although X would have to be a pretty good > > > reason, as that's not usually how we do things. > > > > Patches should spend a week or so in -next (that's documented > > somewhere), so people in the Cc list will have their chance to > > comment. > > Yes they should, _after_ reviewing. Chucking patches into -next > before others have been given a chance to review is _not_ the right > thing to do. If everyone did that -next would be unbuildable and This is up to the maintainer, and given how trivial patch was, he did the right thing. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html