Centenary Reached By Trivial Patch Monkey

Centenary Reached By Trivial Patch Monkey

[Rusty Russell]

Hi All,

	With the recent flurry of inclusions, the trivial@
rustcorp.com.au Trivial Patch Monkey has passed 100 patches which have
filtered into the various kernels: 5 into 2.2, 55 into 2.4 and 71 into
2.5.  Linus and Marcelo now seem well trained to take the patches
(although the bogus attribution is a problem).

	With this surprising success (I thought the damn thing would
die after a few days), I will be continuing to provide the service,
which only takes me about an hour a week.

Usage notes:
	1) Please provide one patch per email, even if it means 50
	   emails.

	2) Make sure your diffs are -p1 compliant, ie:
		+++ linux/drivers/net/foo.c

	3) MIME is fine.

	4) CC'ing trivial is fine: I usually only forward the patch
	   if a kernel has been released since.

	5) I actually read the patches, so don't expect real-time
	   response.

FYI, most patches are: (1) janitorial fixes from new people who can't
get Linus or linux-kernel to read their patches (aka. Alan Cox Mode),
and (2) one-liners from experienced kernel hackers who wouldn't bother
retransmitting themselves (aka. Drop Prevention Mode).

Thanks!
Trivial Patch Monkey.
--
  Oook ook! Chirp Eep? *THWACK*
	-- Sound of 30 trivial patches hitting penguin 

Re: Centenary Reached By Trivial Patch Monkey

[Eli Carter]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 	With the recent flurry of inclusions, the trivial@
> rustcorp.com.au Trivial Patch Monkey has passed 100 patches which have
> filtered into the various kernels: 5 into 2.2, 55 into 2.4 and 71 into
> 2.5.  Linus and Marcelo now seem well trained to take the patches
> (although the bogus attribution is a problem).
> 
> 	With this surprising success (I thought the damn thing would
> die after a few days), I will be continuing to provide the service,
> which only takes me about an hour a week.

Cool!  As one who watched the whole fla^H^H^Hdiscussion about a 'patch 
penguin' with great interest, I'm very happy to hear of the success of 
your trivial patch monkey.  :)

I've not used it yet, but I'll remember it when I have one-liners. :)

Thanks for doing this!

Eli
--------------------. "If it ain't broke now,
Eli Carter           \                  it will be soon." -- crypto-gram
eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------

Re: Centenary Reached By Trivial Patch Monkey

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> FYI, most patches are: (1) janitorial fixes from new people who can't
> get Linus or linux-kernel to read their patches (aka. Alan Cox Mode),
> and (2) one-liners from experienced kernel hackers who wouldn't bother
> retransmitting themselves (aka. Drop Prevention Mode).

Just -- thanks for that. "Patch and forget" is very welcome for easy patches.

								Pavel
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Re: Centenary Reached By Trivial Patch Monkey

[Rusty Russell]

In message <20020530002705.B155@toy.ucw.cz> you write:
> Hi!
> 
> > FYI, most patches are: (1) janitorial fixes from new people who can't
> > get Linus or linux-kernel to read their patches (aka. Alan Cox Mode),
> > and (2) one-liners from experienced kernel hackers who wouldn't bother
> > retransmitting themselves (aka. Drop Prevention Mode).
> 
> Just -- thanks for that. "Patch and forget" is very welcome for easy patches.

Yes, this was in fact my motiviation: it takes about 30 seconds to do
a one-liner patch when you're reading through code.  It's not much
extra effort to gather everyone else's as well...

Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.