linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial/pmac_zilog: Remove flawed mitigation for rx irq flood

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Message-ID: <5dd285bd-b9a8-c85c-9bd9-a839c10e78fd@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:17:27 +1100 (AEDT)
From: Finn Thain <fthain@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
    Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, 
    Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, 
    Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, 
    Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, 
    "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...nel.org>, 
    "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com>, 
    linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
    linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/pmac_zilog: Remove flawed mitigation for rx irq
 flood


On Thu, 4 Apr 2024, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> 
> > > > ---
> > > (here is a good location for Cc:)
> >
> > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst indicats that it should 
> > be above the "---" separator together with Acked-by etc. Has this 
> > convention changed recently?
> 
> I see, I will prepare a patch to discuss this aspect.
> 

If you are going to veto patches on the basis of rules yet unwritten, I 
think you risk turning the kernel development process into a lottery.

How many other patches presently under review will need to be dropped just 
in case they don't conform with possible future rules?