From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: assign random address Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:36:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20071216.203641.75015660.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20071216.152606.35263254.davem@davemloft.net> <4765D4F0.5040202@garzik.org> <20071216185548.bc9f1918.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeff@garzik.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, berrange@redhat.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, rjw@sisk.pl To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40808 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751785AbXLQEgm (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:36:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071216185548.bc9f1918.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Andrew Morton Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:55:48 -0800 > Kinda funny. I (and I bet lots of others) spend a lot of time > fixing, cleaning up and totally rewriting patch titles. It's probably the majority of the typing I perform to apply a patch except for the folks who format things the way that works best for me. I realize that I can't get every patch submitter to conform to what I want, but at least I try to nudge the people who submit the most stuff to me. And it's just as much to "help me out" as it is that I want the changelogs header lines to look consistent. I'm going to enforce that consistency anyways. :-) But if people submit patches in a way that makes life difficult for the subsystem maintainer, and keeps doing so after being asked to adjust their submissions a little bit, well... some patches might get mysteriously ignored. When you're submitting a lot of patches you're chewing up a LOT of someone's bandwidth. I often spend at least 45 minutes a day on network namespace patches, as one specific example. That's a large investment of time to give someone. In return it's asking very little to "make your subject lines look like this, it helps me a lot, kthx".