Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751304AbVIURk5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:40:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751307AbVIURk4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:40:56 -0400 Received: from mailfe03.swip.net ([212.247.154.65]:31120 "EHLO swip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751304AbVIURk4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:40:56 -0400 X-T2-Posting-ID: jLUmkBjoqvly7NM6d2gdCg== Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:36:30 +0200 From: Alexander Nyberg To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , 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. Message-ID: <20050921173630.GA2477@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050921101855.GD25297@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1336 Lines: 32 On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:35:20AM -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > I think you are not following the proper procedure. All the patches > > should go through akpm. > > 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. > Morever bugme.osdl.org is severely underworked (acpi being a noteable exception) and Andrew has stepped in alot there too. Alot of bugs reported on the mailing list are only followed up by Andrew. I think he really should receive much more help than he currently does. - 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/