From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: ksummit-2012-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] Your upstream maintainer just isn't that into you...
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:58:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120627085800.GA3007@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA9_cmeNagC1sF54BAHa1sTzL3sMD3eKoftHQHCM5q9vKq5Dyg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:44:56PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Can we do a better job of bounding the maximum latency for acceptance
> or rejection of a patch?
I sent quite a few patches all over the kernel as part of my Smatch
work. If I don't get feedback on my patch then I assume it will be
merged. I've gone through my sent-mail box and collected the
patches which weren't merged. Hopefully, this is useful in
discussing maintainer submitter feedback.
Some of these patches are probably wrong but it would have been nice
to get some feedback on that.
The SCSI subsystem obviously stands out as pretty bad. It's the
only subsystem where you can send a patch over and over and not get
a response. It's not that I think all my patches should be merged
without any review and free hugs for everyone... For all the other
patches in this list, I feel that the patches was dropped by
mistake but in SCSI it was silently ignored as a policy.
Causes of patches being lost:
* Poor changelog on a cleanup patch.
* I didn't CC the person who introduced the bug so I never got
their acked-by.
* The patch wasn't obvious and the maintainer was planning to review
it later and forgot.
* Confusion about who was supposed to pull a patch.
* Poor communication between the maintainer and me and I didn't
realize they wanted me to redo the patch. Don't phrase your
statements as questions.
regards,
dan carpenter
next parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-27 8:58 UTC|newest]
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2012-06-27 8:58 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-06-27 8:59 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] bfa: off by one in bfa_ioc_mbox_isr() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 8:59 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 17:44 ` Krishna Gudipati
2012-06-27 17:44 ` Krishna Gudipati
2012-06-27 8:59 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] bfa: dereferencing freed memory in bfad_im_probe() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 8:59 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 17:45 ` Krishna Gudipati
2012-06-27 17:45 ` Krishna Gudipati
2012-06-27 9:00 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] megaraid: remove a spurious IRQ enable Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 22:36 ` adam radford
2012-06-27 22:36 ` adam radford
2012-06-27 9:00 ` [patch 1/2 -resend] SCSI: advansys: handle errors from scsi_dma_map() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:01 ` walter harms
2012-06-27 10:01 ` walter harms
2012-06-27 10:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:01 ` [patch 2/2 -resend] SCSI: advansys: use a subsystem error code Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:01 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:01 ` [patch -resend] 9p: fix min_t() casting in p9pdu_vwritef() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:01 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:19 ` walter harms
2012-06-27 10:19 ` walter harms
2012-06-27 10:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:56 ` walter harms
2012-06-27 22:26 ` David Miller
2012-06-27 22:26 ` David Miller
2012-06-27 9:02 ` [patch -resend] spi/spidev: handle integer wrap in spidev_message() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:02 ` [patch -resend] mmc: ushc: fix an endianness conversion in ushc_request() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:03 ` [patch -resend] sgi-xp: nested calls to spin_lock_irqsave() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:03 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:04 ` [patch 1/3 -resend] [SCSI] pmcraid: remove unneeded check Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:04 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:04 ` [patch 2/3 -resend] [SCSI] pmcraid: cpu_to_le32() => cpu_to_le64() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:04 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:04 ` [patch 3/3 -resend] [SCSI] pmcraid: find_first_zero_bit() takes bits not bytes Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:04 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:05 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] isci: add a couple __iomem annotations Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:05 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 20:58 ` Dan Williams
2012-06-27 20:58 ` Dan Williams
2012-06-27 9:05 ` [SCSI] bfa: Implement LUN Masking feature using the SCSI Slave Callouts Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:06 ` [patch -resend] NVMe: handle allocation failure in nvme_map_user_pages() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:06 ` [patch -resend] [media] az6007: precedence bug in az6007_i2c_xfer() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 13:11 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-06-27 13:11 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-06-28 19:33 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-28 19:33 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:07 ` [patch v3 -resend] edac i5000, i5400: fix pointer math in i5000_get_mc_regs() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:07 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 12:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-06-27 12:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-06-27 9:08 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] megaraid: cleanup type issue in mega_build_cmd() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:08 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 22:36 ` adam radford
2012-06-27 22:36 ` adam radford
2012-06-27 9:08 ` [patch 1/2 -resend] dma-debug: debugfs_create_bool() takes a u32 pointer Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:08 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 11:09 ` Neil Horman
2012-06-27 11:09 ` Neil Horman
2012-07-02 10:15 ` Joerg Roedel
2012-07-02 10:15 ` Joerg Roedel
2012-06-27 9:09 ` [patch 2/2 -resend] iommu/amd: fix type bug in flush code Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:09 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:09 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:10 ` [patch -resend] isci: make function declaration match implementation Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:10 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:10 ` [patch -resend] drm/i915/bios: cleanup return type of intel_parse_bios() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:10 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:10 ` [patch -resend] leds-lp5523: BUG() in error handling in probe() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:10 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:49 ` Bryan Wu
2012-06-27 10:49 ` Bryan Wu
2012-06-27 10:55 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:55 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-28 19:39 ` Matt Renzelmann
2012-06-28 19:39 ` Matt Renzelmann
2012-06-27 9:11 ` [patch -resend] Input: ff-memless - fix a couple min_t() casts Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:11 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-07-08 1:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-07-08 1:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-06-27 9:11 ` [patch -resend] [patch] tlb_uv: remove some dead code in parse_tunables_write() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 9:11 ` Dan Carpenter
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