Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754699Ab0LGPbO (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:31:14 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38110 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752098Ab0LGPbN (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:31:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 16:31:12 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Mark Brown Cc: Joe Perches , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lrg@slimlogic.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 29/29] drivers/regulator: Update WARN uses In-Reply-To: <20101207151608.GC9689@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> Message-ID: References: <20101207114346.GC10722@sirena.org.uk> <20101207151608.GC9689@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1587 Lines: 41 On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > Align arguments. > > > > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches > > > > Acked-by: Mark Brown > > > > but please do remember to send patches to maintainers - trying to merge > > > patches without going through the maintainers means that people working > > > on the actual tree concerned may either replicate your work or introduce > > > conflicts with your patches, neither of which is good. > > > That happened here: > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/1/107 > > > but the patch is not in linux-next after more than one month. Which is why > > Joe is resending it for inclusion through my queue. > > That's not a reason to drop people from the CCs when reposting, and when > reposting it's always good to include any reviews you got previously. Yes, collecting of the previously collected Acked-by: would definitely be good. Joe, could you please include it next time? > Indeed, looking at the original posting you'll see he sent it directly > to you first time around as well as CCing the maintainers. Yes, but I am not merging these large series which span gazillion of subsystems at first. I only tend to act as a fallback for those parts of the series which were not merged by maintainers. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- 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/