linux-kernel - Re: What is the right practice to get new code upstream( was Fwd: [patch] a simple hardware detector for latency as well as throughput ver. 0.1.0)

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Message-ID: <CAJRGBZy_wqUgN_jx9PinXHSGM30XjrRm49xFXkfumucAeaQ2bw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:25:44 -0400
From:	Luming Yu <luming.yu@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	sfr@...b.auug.org.au, jcm@...masters.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: What is the right practice to get new code upstream( was Fwd:
 [patch] a simple hardware detector for latency as well as throughput ver. 0.1.0)

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:57:02 +0800
> Luming Yu <luming.yu@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> I need to know what the right practice is to get your attention to
>> accept a new tool upstream like this one.
>
> Seems that you have some good feedback from Arnd to be looking at.  I'm
> usually the guy for mysterious misc stuff such as this, so please cc me
> on future revisions.

Andrew, Thanks a lot :-) The community is really helpful after find
right people for right things.

>
> The name "hw_test" and "HW_TEST" is too vague.  The topic "testing
> hardware" is very broad, and this module only touches a small fraction
> of it, so please think up a far more specific name.
>

I'm working on Version 2 of the tool which would be renamed to
cpu_latency_test, or simply misc_latency_test?

thanks!!! /l
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