Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756067Ab3EGRpB (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 13:45:01 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f173.google.com ([209.85.220.173]:33310 "EHLO mail-vc0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753822Ab3EGRpA (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 13:45:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130507173231.GL18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1367942534-2934003-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20130507173231.GL18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 10:44:59 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: AAfrVNJcPvz8qwGBIoGtHpYPCKY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ARM: Third batch of arm-soc changes for 3.10 From: Linus Torvalds To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Arnd Bergmann , ARM SoC , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1412 Lines: 30 On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > So I don't think that asking people to play games with delays between > consecutive messages is going to work all that well. Actually, since this has happened before (a lot) with patch series, I'm pretty sure it helps. I used to get re-ordered patches from Andrew all the time, and asked him to try to avoid it (yes, he also numbers them well, but alpine - which is what I used for batching email when there are lots of patches - had this annoying habit of ignoring the "[PATCH n]" part when asked to sort subject alphabetically). These days, he seems to put a delay of a second between his patch-bombings these days, and that has almost entirely solved the problem (so in a series of over a hundred, I seldom get any renumbering at all, and fixing it up manually if it happens is much easier now). But yes, it probably depends very much on where things get sent from, and in particular if you have some slow SMTP server in one of the hops. So it's possible that the reason I don't see it with Andrew any more is simply due to issues like that. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/