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Message-ID: <20080623102255.49d602bb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:22:55 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, wim@...ana.be Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] WATCHDOG: Clean out header of s3c2410_wdt driver. O> > NAK. This is going to clash with the big pile of changes stuck in the > > maintainers in queue. > > Then why, as the original driver authour and current maintainer > do I not get told about this? This isn't the first time I've come > to apply this sort of thing and find that someone else has slipped > in an 'trivial' change such as whitespace that breaks an entire > patch series. > Do people not bother to check who wrote the driver or who is the > current maintainer before doing these things? Yes - and posted patch series to the lists. The entire watchdog tree went systematically through the cleanup process. Then I've queued a small series of patches which are a proposed rework of Wim's idea about changing the API for watchdogs entirely. It has slipped back out of sight of most people for ages because Wim has been attending to other things so it has been queued for about 3 weeks. Alan -- 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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