Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759050AbWLJFKA (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:10:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759064AbWLJFKA (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:10:00 -0500 Received: from smtp.ocgnet.org ([64.20.243.3]:38940 "EHLO smtp.ocgnet.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759067AbWLJFJ7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:09:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:09:20 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: why are some of my patches being credited to other "authors"? Message-ID: <20061210050920.GA19828@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , "Robert P. J. Day" , Jeff Garzik , Linux kernel mailing list References: <457A9F3B.6020009@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1377 Lines: 26 On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 07:11:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm far more interested in at least knowing what happens to patches > once they enter the system, so i can plan on what kind of cleanup i > can work on next. > Trivial patches tend not to be a priority for most people, especially during a period when people are gearing up for the close of the merge window (unless they happen to fix a serious bug, in which case it's another matter, and it should also be brought to -stable's attention). Timing has a lot to do with expected feedback for these sorts of things. trivial@kernel.org exists to handle the rest of the bits, where Adrian has a tendency to queue up many trivial and related patches at once, and sending out pull requests at a time where it will be less disruptive to the rest of development. You might be better off simply CC'ing trivial@ on these patch submissions and routinely checking the trivial git tree to see whether they've been queued or not. However, if you're changing or reordering functionality that isn't an obvious bugfix, you're still going to have to get an ack from the maintainer. - 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/