Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:21:50 -0400 | From | Peter Hurley <> | Subject | Re: about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conduct |
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On 04/07/2015 07:18 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:12:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> Pointing out this truth and protecting against such abusive flood of >>> trivial patches is not against the code of conduct I signed. >> >> I totally agree, it's not "against" the code of conflict that I >> helped write. >> >> Joe, you know better than to send trivial stuff to maintainers who >> don't want it. Send it through the trivial maintainer for >> subsystems that have expressed annoyance at this, it's not the first >> time this has happened. > > I argue that they should not be sent _at all_ in such cases, not even > via the trivial tree: firstly because typically I'll pick up the bits > from the trivial tree as well, and secondly because most of the > arguments I listed against bulk trivial commits (weaker bisectability, > taking up reviewer bandwidth, taking up Git space, etc.) still stand.
And requires backports for -stable.
Regards, Peter Hurley
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