Re: [PATCH 0/8] FPGA DFL Changes for 5.12

Moritz Fischer
2021-01-11T20:29:41Z

Tom,

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:46:03AM -0800, Tom Rix wrote:

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> I have been doing the first review in a couple of days after every patch landing.

I appreciate your help with doing reviews.

> I see some pretty good response from the developers to fix the issues raised.

... yet patches have been rejected. So it doesn't seem purely a matter
of throughput?

> But I do not see Moritz picking up the review until weeks later.

I'll admit there are delays that happen, I have a dayjob as I pointed
out in earlier conversations. Furthermore, just because I do not
immediately send out an email does not mean I don't look at stuff.

If people show up with 100kLOC patchsets that don't pass checkpatch,
it'll take a while for me to even read up and understand what they're
doing / trying to do.

> This consistent delay in timely reviews is a bottleneck.

As Greg pointed out even ones that were reviewed got rejected, so
clearly the issue is with the quality and not the speed at which we send
them on.

> It would be good if the big first reviews could be done in parallel.

Again depending how the patchsets are structured it will take me a while
to process. Having them re-use existing infrastructure, following
coding and submission guidelines will speed up the process.

On a personal level, being told I'm too slow and not doing my job as
maintainer doesn't exactly increase my motivation to get to it ...

- Moritz