Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: If you want me to quit I will quit | From | Harvey Harrison <> | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:20:55 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:00 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > [BUILDFIX PATCH] au0828: debug is a poor global identifier > > Another issue for which I already sent a (slightly different) patch. > > Why not check the mailing list before duplicating work? [1] >
I do generally try to check the mailing list to avoid this...but LKML tends to be pretty busy. I also try to check the latest -git devel tree for the affected area in case it's waiting to be pulled. In this case it was so trivial I sent it directly to Linus.
In fact, I concentrate on looking at the sparse output because you do such a good job of catching unnecessary exports/globals.
> And if you e.g. discover next that our x86 userspace headers in > 2.6.25 (sic) are fucked up guess who already sent a patch last > weekend... [2] > > Why do other people get over 100 checkpatch fixes into the tree at once > or Linus applies patches directly bypassing the maintainers (like the > one you sent just before [3], which I've also already sent before [4]) > but my patches bitrot forever?
And look how many of mine have been sitting in -mm for weeks because I thought they should go through a maintainer/-mm. This was just annoying as it was making my sparse builds quit, and I thought others might be in the same boat.
Cheers,
Harvey
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