Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:30:59 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] namespace updates for v3.17-rc1 |
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Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> writes:
> Hi Eric, > >> As for missing cool tags shrug. The people looking at my code didn't >> feel like saying the magic words so I didn't include cool tags. > > Maybe you should push them ... these tags are not just "cool", they > give less involved people some indications of what has happened in the > life of a patch.
Etiquette is a good idea where it helps things flow smoothly. Other times like this standing on etiquette would have resulted in trivial fixes for long standing issues not going anywhere.
Althogh I will keep it in mind in the future.
>> Which is a my long winded way of say it sounds like you are accusing me >> of being irresponsible, and my way of saying that I have tested and > > I did not mean to accuse, there are reasons (as you have pointed out) > that things get added late, or rewritten.
I really try to avoid those reasons but I missed it this round and the buildbot did not manage to find the comibination with a build error until the code hit linux-next :(
Eric
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