Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751929Ab3HTVtr (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:49:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]:46185 "EHLO mail-ob0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751443Ab3HTVtd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:49:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:49:29 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: rfc: trivial patches and slow deaths? To: Joe Perches Cc: Jiri Kosina , LKML , kernel-janitors References: <1376944033.2016.13.camel@joe-AO722> <1376946644.2016.35.camel@joe-AO722> <1376947637.2016.39.camel@joe-AO722> <1377028944.2737.75@driftwood> <1377029650.2016.72.camel@joe-AO722> In-Reply-To: <1377029650.2016.72.camel@joe-AO722> (from joe@perches.com on Tue Aug 20 15:14:10 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1377035369.2737.85@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1859 Lines: 57 On 08/20/2013 03:14:10 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 15:02 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > On 08/19/2013 04:27:17 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 23:22 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > > > > > > This is a 7 line patch that corrects logging defects that has > had > > > no > > > > > reply from you for the last month. > > > > > > > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2833648/ > > > > > > > > This hasn't missed any Linus' major release, as it has been > > > submitted post > > > > 3.11 merge, right? (hint, that was Jul 4th). > > > > > > > > If this would miss *next* major Linus' release, I would accept > your > > > > complaints. But this is definitely not the case. > > > > > > You're suggesting this patch, which corrects obvious > > > defects, should miss 3.12 and go into 3.13? > > > > > > I think that's wrong. > > > > Correcting obvious defects, which can't wait a release, is "trivial" > > now, is it? > > Rob, how do you suggest this obvious and trivial > patch be handled? Obvious != trivial. They're orthogonal. > Send 6+ 1 line patches that do the same thing to > individual maintainers? If it's important send it to Andrew Morton. > The next release in a couple/few weeks is 3.11. > 3.12 should take 2.5/3 months for a typical cycle. > > Patches bound for 3.12 should be in -next today. > > 3.13 should be out in about half a year. > > Is it really appropriate to delay the trivially > obvious for sixish months? If it's trivial it's not time critical. If it's time critical it's not trivial. Rob-- 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/