linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] wifi: brcmfmac: Rename Cypress 89459 to BCM4355

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Message-ID: <877cwl65n6.fsf@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:45:17 +0200
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
Cc:     Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>,
        Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@...e.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] wifi: brcmfmac: Rename Cypress 89459 to BCM4355

Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st> writes:

>> If Kalle is willing to cleanup the commit message in the current patch you 
>> are lucky. You are free to ask. Otherwise it should be not too much trouble 
>> resubmitting it.

FWIW I can edit commit logs as long as the changes are simple and the
edit instructions are clear, ie. it takes no more than a minute for me
to do the edit.

> It's even less trouble to just take it as is, since an extra "v2: " in
> the commit message doesn't hurt anyone other than those who choose to be
> hurt by it. And as I said there's *tons* of commits with a changelog
> like this in Linux. It's not uncommon.
>
> I swear, some maintainers seem to take a perverse delight in making
> things as painful as possible for submitters, even when there is
> approximately zero benefit to the end result. And I say this as a
> maintainer myself.
>
> Maybe y'all should be the ones feeling lucky that so many people are
> willing to put up with all this bullshit to get things upstreamed to
> Linux. It's literally the worst open source project to upstream things
> to, by a *very long* shot. I'll respin a v4 if I must, but but it's.
> Just. This. Kind. Of. Nonsense. Every. Single. Time. And. Every. Single.
> Time. It's. Something. Different. This stuff burns people out and
> discourages submissions and turns huge numbers of people off from ever
> contributing to Linux, and you all need to seriously be aware of that.

I understand it's frustrating but please also try understand us
maintainers. For example, I have 150 patches in patchwork right now. So
it's not easy for us maintainers either, far from it.

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