Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752803AbaLLXYK (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:24:10 -0500 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:37644 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751519AbaLLXYJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:24:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:24:03 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: LKML cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Maintainer abuse Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm really starting to get seriously grumpy about this. Everyone is aware that we are in the middle of the merge window. So this is definetely NOT the time to send anything else than urgent bugfixes or the usual question/reply on something which was discussed before. I really consider it to be maintainer abuse to have [PATCH V5 00/23] Generic BMIPS kernel [RFC][PATCH 0/8] x86, mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels [v3 00/26] Add VT-d Posted-Interrupts support i.e. 57 patches to look at in my inbox TODAY in the middle of the merge window where I have to make other really more urgent decisions. Not to talk about the other patch series which arrived in the past few days after the merge window opened. That sums up to a total of more than 200 patches, some of them superseeded by now. Nothing of this is 3.19 material so posting it right now is just useless. I'm not going to look at it and I'm not going to look at it next week either. This whole featuritis driven 'post crap as fast as you can' thing has to stop, really. I'm observing the following patterns in a frightingly increasing way: - Posting of massive patch sets right during or just before the merge window - Reposting of patchsets before the reviewer/maintainer had a chance to reply to ALL of N patches This really has to stop. Yours grumpy tglx -- 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/