linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/23] media: Replace memcpy with struct assignment

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Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:55:30 -0300
From:	Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-media <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/23] media: Replace memcpy with struct assignment

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@...hat.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> There are 400+ patches pending today at patchwork. I doubt I'll have enough
> time for all of them, so, I'll skip cleanup patches like the above, in order
> to try to focus on bug fixes and patches that brings new functionality to
> existing code and with a low risk of breaking anything.
>

I understand completely.


> Next year, we'll start implementing the sub-maintainers, and, with their
> help, I suspect we'll be able to finally apply those patches.
>
> If you want us to help, feel free to review/test the individual patches
> submitted by non-maintainers to the ML. We tend to apply faster patches
> that are more reviewed.
>
> Hmm... well, actually it is just the opposite: we explicitly delay
> not-reviewed patches for unmaintained/bad maintained drivers,
> to see if someone acks or nacks them after testing.
>

I'll try to help whenever possible.

Thanks,

    Ezequiel
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