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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:47:25 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [Pull] Some documentation patches
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Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> I've noticed that getting documentation patches merged seems to be a
> slower and more uncertain process than it was a while back.  So I
> figured I'd try to be one of the cool folks with their own git tree and
> see if that works better.  Linus, if you agree, could you please pull:

A lot of the time it's just a matter of the "merge window" for
non-critical patches.  OTOH, doc patches could be merged at just about
any time IMO.

>   git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6.git docs
> 
> To get the following:
> 
> Jonathan Corbet (3):
>       Add the seq_file documentation
>       Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
>       Add a comment discouraging use of in_atomic()
> 
>  Documentation/SubmittingPatches        |   54 ++++++-
>  Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX     |    2 +
>  Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt |  283 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/hardirq.h                |    8 +
>  4 files changed, 344 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
> 
> These changes are (1) an updated version of the seq_file document first
> posted in 2003, (2) the much-reviewed patch tags documentation, and
> (3) a comment warning developers that in_atomic() doesn't mean what they
> think it means.  No code changes.
> 
> If this works out, and nobody objects, I'll try to run this tree into
> the future as a collection point for documentation patches which don't
> have a more obvious tree to travel through.

Getting doc patches merged can be slow sometimes (slower than needed),
but I'm still having success at it.

-- 
~Randy
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