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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012071629460.14806@pobox.suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 16:31:12 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
lrg@...mlogic.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 29/29] drivers/regulator: Update WARN uses
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > Align arguments.
>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
>
> > > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
>
> > > but please do remember to send patches to maintainers - trying to merge
> > > patches without going through the maintainers means that people working
> > > on the actual tree concerned may either replicate your work or introduce
> > > conflicts with your patches, neither of which is good.
>
> > That happened here:
>
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/1/107
>
> > but the patch is not in linux-next after more than one month. Which is why
> > Joe is resending it for inclusion through my queue.
>
> That's not a reason to drop people from the CCs when reposting, and when
> reposting it's always good to include any reviews you got previously.
Yes, collecting of the previously collected Acked-by: would definitely be
good. Joe, could you please include it next time?
> Indeed, looking at the original posting you'll see he sent it directly
> to you first time around as well as CCing the maintainers.
Yes, but I am not merging these large series which span gazillion of
subsystems at first. I only tend to act as a fallback for those parts of
the series which were not merged by maintainers.
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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