Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:41:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:41:12 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:43783 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:40:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3C03436E.5020705@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:40:30 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anuradha Ratnaweera CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Release Policy In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011126113409.00bfaa70@mail.osagesoftware.com> <3C02E682.4CDC6858@zip.com.au> <20011126.171301.50592818.davem@redhat.com> <9tuqf2$eri$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20011127133902.A21914@bee.lk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > A minor issue... > > How does Marcelo (or Linus or Alan, say) know that the patch _really_ came from > the subsystem aintainer himself? I mean anybody would have sent any crap, but > not too bad enough to suspect. But if it came with a CC to a list, there is a > much smaller chance of this happenning. > > Yes. This would be very rare and the effects would be very short lived. But > still the _possibility_ exists. > How about sending a quick reply "got your patch, applied it?" The maintainer can then say "WHAT PATCH?" -hpa - 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/