linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v13 2/2] spi: loongson: add bus driver for the loongson spi controller

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:07:44 +0800
From:   Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@...ngson.cn>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jianmin Lv <lvjianmin@...ngson.cn>, wanghongliang@...ngson.cn,
        Liu Peibao <liupeibao@...ngson.cn>,
        loongson-kernel@...ts.loongnix.cn,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        zhuyinbo@...ngson.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 2/2] spi: loongson: add bus driver for the loongson
 spi controller



在 2023/7/28 下午8:31, Mark Brown 写道:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 11:36:48AM +0800, Yinbo Zhu wrote:
>> 在 2023/7/27 下午7:37, Mark Brown 写道:
>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:09:16AM +0800, Yinbo Zhu wrote:
> 
>>>> Friendly ping ?
> 
>>> Please don't send content free pings and please allow a reasonable time
>>> for review.  People get busy, go on holiday, attend conferences and so
>>> on so unless there is some reason for urgency (like critical bug fixes)
>>> please allow at least a couple of weeks for review.  If there have been
>>> review comments then people may be waiting for those to be addressed.
> 
>> Sorry, my community experience is poor.  How many weeks does the
>> community usually take to review ?  and this time that I waited for six
>> weeks and then ping.
> 
> The delay here is probably fine - the above is a form letter that I send
> whenever people ping so it tries to cover all eventualities.  How long
> to leave things depends a bit on what the change is, an urgent bugfix is
> going to be different from a spelling fix in a comment.


okay, I got it.

> 
>>> Sending content free pings adds to the mail volume (if they are seen at
>>> all) which is often the problem and since they can't be reviewed
>>> directly if something has gone wrong you'll have to resend the patches
>>> anyway, so sending again is generally a better approach though there are
>>> some other maintainers who like them - if in doubt look at how patches
>>> for the subsystem are normally handled.
> 
>> Sorry, I don't got it, that free ping usually only needs to be sent to
>> the subsystem maintainer?
> 
>> Not recommended to use free ping?  or resend the same patch.  If the
>> patch does not need to be modified, does it require sending the same
>> patch ?  And the version number remains the same?
> 
> I'm saying it's generally better to ping by resending the patch.
> Typically keeping the same version number makes sense when doing that -
> people normally say [PATCH RESEND vN] in the subject line.


okay, I got it

Thanks,
Yinbo