linux-kernel - Re: How long to wait on patches?

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Date:	Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:45:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com>
To:	Matt LaPlante <kernel1@...erdogtech.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How long to wait on patches?

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Matt LaPlante wrote:

> I checked the FAQ but didn't see an answer to this.  Over the past few weeks 
> I've submitted probably around 8 simple typo-fix patches all of which seemed 
> to be approved by others on the list.  I've been following the GIT, but these 
> patches haven't been merged yet.  I know people are busy with other things, 
> probably more important, but I would like to know how long is "acceptable" to 
> wait before I should re-submit a patch.  Obviously if enough time passes, 
> patches start to break as source files change.  I don't mean to be a nuisance; 
> I'm just trying to determine proper protocol.  That and the fact I can submit 
> several more patches once I get some of these old ones out of my queue. :)

be sure to watch the -mm tree as well, a lot of patches are picked up by Andrew 
to be fed to Linus that way

this is a particularly bad week since almost all the core developers were up at 
OLS.

one thing you may want to look at doing (hosting permitting) is to setup a git 
tree to just hold your trivial patches so that they can be pulled easily.

I thought there was a person who was maintaining a -trivial tree for this 
purpose, I don't remember who it was though.

David Lang
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