Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:38:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Iau, 2005-09-08 at 16:52 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > > I notice DaveM's taken over serial maintainership. Please arrange for > > > serial patches to be sent to davem in future, thanks. (All ARM serial > > > drivers are broken as of Tuesday.) > > > > > > I might take a different view if I at least had a curtious CC: of the > > > patch, which I had already asked akpm to reject. > > > > > > Thanks. That's another subsystem I don't have to care about anymore. > > > > Please remember to send Linus a patch updating MAINTAINERS if so. > > Well, it appears that we're fast approaching meltdown in kernel > land - patches are being applied despite maintainers objection, > maintainers are not being copied with changes in their area, etc.
Sometimes. They're mistakes. > I might mind less with the occasional slip up if it was occasional, > but it doesn't appear to be anymore - maybe not from my perspective. The number of times I've been made aware of it happening is quite occasional. > This morning Andi Kleen stated: > > "normally he (akpm) asks you before finally sending them off - > then you can complain again" > > I don't appear to be asked by akpm Maintainer is (at least) cc'ed when the patch goes into -mm and when it goes over to Linus. Post-facto complaining is appreciated, so we can fix the kernel and so I can tweak the process or the brain. > - patches from -mm are sent > to Linus CC'd me, and that occurs during the night. Come the > morning, they're in Linus tree so unless one is awake reading > email 24 hours a day, it's impossible to "complain again". It shouldn't be necessary to complain more than once. Sometimes I'll hang on to a complained-about patch a) to remember that something needs to happen and b) because an update is expected. Once or twice I've accidentally submitted such patches. This particular patch ([SERIAL]: Avoid 'statement with no effect' warnings.) didn't ever go into -mm. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/