linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] README: cosmetic fixes

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:53:02 -0200
From:	Diego Viola <diego.viola@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: cosmetic fixes

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, Diego Viola wrote:
>
>> Is there a reason this patch didn't make it for 4.5?
>
> Diego, this is a second time I am CCed on some super-super-trivial patch
> from you, and you keep to be very persistent regarding the urge of pushing
> everything upstream ASAP.
>
> Please understand that there are much more important things that need to
> end up in a particular kernel release, and purely cosmetic fixes (such as
> this one) simply have to wait for the particular maintainer to clean up
> low priority items (such as this one) from his queue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
>

The thing I'm unsure about is that the pull request contained trivial
changes from others as well, and my patch was trivial, yes.

So why not include my changes with the other trivial changes as well?

Diego