linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: r8188eu: Make some clean-ups in usbctrl

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Message-ID: <8984a400-0d1a-07cc-cff4-c0eeef81fc79@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:04:31 +0300
From:   Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: r8188eu: Make some clean-ups in
 usbctrl_vendorreq()

On 8/24/21 6:59 PM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 5:43:26 PM CEST Pavel Skripkin wrote:
>> On 8/24/21 6:39 PM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
>> > Oh, I know where it comes from... :)
>> > 
>> > It's a patch of mine that is in the queue, waiting to be reviewed and applied.
>> > Please see: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210819221241.31987-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com/
>> > 
>> oh.... there are _a lot_ of pending changes :)
>> 
>> I guess, we need smth like public-mirror with already reviewed and 
>> working changes
> 
> It's becoming a serious problem. A lot of times I see people who is asked to
> rebase and resend, not because they forget to fetch the current tree, instead
> because the tree changes as soon as Greg start to apply the first patches in the
> queue and the other patches at the end of the queue cannot be applied.
> 
> Anyway,I understand that Greg cannot apply a patch at a time soon after
> submission but in the while the queue grows larger and larger.
> 


It can be easily fixed. We need public fork somewhere (github, 
git.kernel.org ...) and we should ask Greg to add remote-branch to his 
tree.

Then one of the maintainers/reviewers should accept patches to this fork 
+ send pull requests every week (I guess).


I can help with picking up and testing after I receive my device and set 
up qemu environment for testing :)




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin