linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

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Date:	Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:39:29 +0100
From:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <markus@...rhumer.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@...il.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...nedhand.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@...il.com>,
	Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@...e-electrons.com>,
	hyojun.im@....com, chan.jeong@....com, gunho.lee@....com,
	minchan.kim@....com, namhyung.kim@....com,
	raphael.andy.lee@...il.com,
	CE Linux Developers List <celinux-dev@...ts.celinuxforum.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:50:52AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 03:02:49AM +0100, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> > At least akpm did approve the LZO update for inclusion into 3.7, but the code
> > still has not been merged into the main tree.
> >   > On 2012-10-09 21:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >   > [...]
> >   > The changes look OK to me.  Please ask Stephen to include the tree in
> >   > linux-next, for a 3.7 merge.
> > 
> > Well, this probably means I have done a rather poor marketing.
> 
> I assume this code is sitting in *your* tree?  How do you think it gets
> into mainline?
> 
> There is no automatic way that code from linux-next gets merged into
> mainline.  That is up to the tree owner to make happen, either by getting
> their tree into a parent maintainers tree, or if there is none, asking
> Linus to pull your tree at the appropriate time.

My feeling is that in this case it is unneccessarily hard
for an outside contributor to get a patch accepted, all
because get_maintainer.pl doesn't put someone in charge.

Apparently it doesn't work to put all the usual maintainer
responsibilities onto the shoulders of a Linux development novice.
Thus it would be nice if some maintainer would come
forward and offer to handle the patches for Markus.


Thanks,
Johannes
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