netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: assign random address

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Message-Id: <20071216.203641.75015660.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:36:41 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	berrange@...hat.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, rjw@...k.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: assign random address

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:55:48 -0800

> Kinda funny.  I (and I bet lots of others) spend a lot of time
> fixing, cleaning up and totally rewriting patch titles.

It's probably the majority of the typing I perform to apply a patch
except for the folks who format things the way that works best for
me.

I realize that I can't get every patch submitter to conform to what I
want, but at least I try to nudge the people who submit the most stuff
to me.

And it's just as much to "help me out" as it is that I want the
changelogs header lines to look consistent.  I'm going to enforce that
consistency anyways. :-)

But if people submit patches in a way that makes life difficult for
the subsystem maintainer, and keeps doing so after being asked to
adjust their submissions a little bit, well... some patches might get
mysteriously ignored.

When you're submitting a lot of patches you're chewing up a LOT of
someone's bandwidth.  I often spend at least 45 minutes a day on
network namespace patches, as one specific example.  That's a large
investment of time to give someone.

In return it's asking very little to "make your subject lines look
like this, it helps me a lot, kthx".

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