From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Subject: How/when to send patches - (was Re: [PATCH] one of $BIGNUM devfs races) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:09:35 +1000 (EST) Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday August 7, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: > > OK, fair enough. When is your next merge with Linus scheduled? I'd > > prefer to get a few races fixed before shipping a patch, but I can try > > to plan for an earlier release if necessary. > > I send stuff Linus regularly and sometimes it goes in and sometimes it > doesn't. Stuff with active maintainers I don't send on to Linus unless asked > too - hence joystick. input and much of USB are so far behind in Linus tree This is something I would like to understand better. Sometimes I send patches to Linus, and a new prepatch comes out within hours that contains them. Sometimes I send patches to Linus and it's like sending them to /dev/null. Sometimes I resend. Sometimes it helps. So I wonder "is he busy? does he have other priorities? does he have a broken mail system? is he being rude" in decreasing order of likelyhood from "very" to "very un-". So I thought I would try sending to Alan and Linus. Then they appeared in an -ac patch, but not in a pre patch. I thought that might be close enough, but if Alan doesn't plan to forward them the Linus, then it isn't. Now I am happy to just resent the pending patches every time a pre patch comes out that doesn't contain then, but I want to be sure that isn't going to negatively impact Linus at all. Comments? NeilBrown (I'm talking about patches to fs/nfsd and drivers/md) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/