Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751290AbVIURao (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:30:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751299AbVIURao (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:30:44 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:11413 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751290AbVIURan (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:30:43 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , len.brown@intel.com, Pierre Ossman , acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ncunningham@cyclades.com, Masoud Sharbiani , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] suspend: Cleanup calling of power off methods. References: <20050921101855.GD25297@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:28:55 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:35:20 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1304 Lines: 32 Linus Torvalds writes: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> I think you are not following the proper procedure. All the patches >> should go through akpm. Ok. I thought it was fine to send simple and obviously correct bug fixes to Linus. > One issue is that I actually worry that Andrew will at some point be where > I was a couple of years ago - overworked and stressed out by just tons and > tons of patches. > > Yes, he's written/modified tons of patch-tracking tools, and the git > merging hopefully avoids some of the pressures, but it still worries me. > If Andrew burns out, we'll all suffer hugely. > > I'm wondering what we can do to offset those kinds of issues. I _do_ like > having -mm as a staging area and catching some problems there, so going > through andrew is wonderful in that sense, but it has downsides. It is especially challenging for people like me who typically work on parts of the kernel without a maintainer. So there frequently isn't an intermediate I can submit my patches to. Eric - 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/