linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] acpi: fix trivial warning

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Date:	Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:32:32 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
To:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Bob Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] acpi: fix trivial warning

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 19:27 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 22:28 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> That doesn't seem too positive. Or at least there's no indication that
> >> somebody will pick it up.
> >
> > I'd re-submit with a better description of the patch. You should always
> > try to describe what your doing as accurately as possible so the
> > maintainer doesn't have to work very hard to know what your doing.
> 
> There's nothing to add. It's a patch to cleanup the coding style, that's it.

How do you know the coding style isn't correct? Did you just visually
inspect it?

> > That
> > particular patch just has a one liner description that wasn't very
> > informative .. Either that or re-submit your series without that patch
> > if you don't have confidence in it.
> 
> All of my patches have been picked up, except the ones for ACPI. I
> haven't received a single comment from them, which would explain the
> current state of the code.
> 
> If somebody raised the hand and said; I'll merge this, please resend,
> I'd do that, otherwise I think it's a waste of time.

Patches often times aren't accepted in the first submission, could be
for lots of reasons. It's your series tho ..

Daniel

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