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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 07:05:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: why are some of my patches being credited to other "authors"? On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > p.s. it's possible that this is all just a wild coincidence, of > > course. stranger things have happened. > > ... or a genuine mistake. sure, as i wrote above, i'm willing to accept that. but it still leaves an open issue -- once one submits a patch, is there *any* official feedback that one can look for to see if it's been accepted/rejected/dropped on the floor/whatever? at last count, i have eight patches in the queue. or do i? i have no way of knowing. (actually, that's not entirely true -- one of the patches was Ack'ed so i'm assuming it will go in eventually, but i still have no idea when.) but given that i'm trying to follow the kernel guidelines and keep each submission as a logically-related chunk, in many cases, i have to wait for one patch to be applied before i can submit the next one. and, at the moment, there's no way of knowing what's going on. rday p.s. WRT to the example i described above, if it was a coincidence that someone else submitted a duplicate patch to mine, i don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that my submission should have been replied to on the list with something like "this patch is a duplicate of so-and-so's," rather than silently throwing it away. a few seconds of that kind of courtesy seems a small price to pay to let me avoid days of wondering what's happening. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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