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Sat, 27 Jun 2020 13:45:23 +0200 Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 13:45:19 +0200 From: Oscar Carter To: Greg KH Subject: Re: Advice about the linux kernel development process Message-ID: <20200627114453.GA3102@ubuntu> References: <20200620143915.GB4330@ubuntu> <20200622080740.GB3364562@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200622080740.GB3364562@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:Xr5nHT1jxopShQWP3BuITtEXe52PkoZ3Tif7vTtpoc3A3qVI5OL XOeDofDU6gDOgxuijlGrsdg/EFn4LpuRWPYLohnS2K4B01uR8V9V5gkSews61k/4jFgevCA QGzfTUWSct+xqTcd8pRDYuxRh3n3IsSajauOYIAZ/suLb8eIYYbVj8JBZjcM+zuaaYDcWYF Iu2Qcym0ZhiE5HkUDMPCQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:UylS/811e2o=:OhgP/zT7kzsFumpI8fZFCY IvW8uaiEqb5WHNp5Bad04QWVpjTgUbqd8a9zDhOdMZm87AVRP5tTLev15m9hMbSClIH4gNwVE 69sXEEgbtKfOEI3qyAs8EriZQqC+r6nVz8CCsytOtNTF5OCni5fey0gZdudlz5azbepBamCMi whYmuOL9VkG40CmP/hsBiQw3gcEa6gLV5DTKRDvm3UviFIxSX72WgqVRMcagUnM9me/VjSf6/ FJLR13p5VMCkGJGdTBtAhNSCN1etqTBgglayfHva8mqHDkoyfk5UIoKtUz1iQBzXwDj7KaB/q cTH9xzjZEOlS9oh/efdC1+ERREdDq0fqD8cLznY4nZCc+KGw/82/H2zcmtLIHweeWYqlaklGD Vpje1e4N9CIq3KB5XOlNw4fpskgQ7UDnMEgaXdaCboYkmeOEXCtmDtTSRYJ2c23GvLDpz3DO9 lYb564CmF3WhX1YE6xl60nnOYvvdoO8U1bdkfi2N0kzCeNwAr7jl/wQepAdsZAFtATdbsfS3H YVlAwAciOOg04Tghvz56OW3Xb7Xl60c19gFKBUUeZNYzmHunCU1LnYhAggrEPnHoXaUA2CPwK yvbjRwqsbSTV6aXqR8xGT3KgdM4b4qrA3FLx9bh3siwKu/rjkSh+OtJBzuVkl/azuFwSS4in9 IbqR0xjyqaedT0u4jC2p7auHb2khvSt16ZbpGj4QdpPatTGK/1kY8S7GqvvpFXnpxUX4ChCNR 7igGv0Fv6i+fy+Ki8eDx92ey598hQnP1LCM0pDWfX0RzQKLsT2xVei5p4v9qVqGwJ4ey1NiXz cQBeU8fuUYbgKckIJDfFsH0HWTdD5lGHVdfUHyAa1SY9EN/FVWGyveysugcqhkpGGf3inL6r5 JP6E6mVhr7QC5gGVPh12vzZsUsD0/Psh+6bgTjvZSn7xlgEPp89mMoipd71PfrgPAcTsA8ayO 3zQUvhtzkvxbU5rC1/cDAZyF/p4GP6yGwBqvFEANe2H7vKllrrDxC20kEgSwARF75wbTinfdR HCgyz4cbKvhqhbj0Gjs0BN/hhB420iBenqQUQKL3p0IarLO+aJqpd48iaYvDu9idC7cvSn1a/ VflO/KD9zUyInLZ05PpGsCwGcxDBooPr19aGrN9b69ByQPR6+r5sJ2kDKrVBp8k24As/TvaX4 JXxP7Y2ia5XE8LvjZP0s/o7CcnPuaL5OTtxL1Pk/xzxUtJY72xr59ehwQWSpFMnS036KmZUZl YeijTJSyaDkoyvZxEZ66IcHOM5ApGB/ac+Sf5Mw== Cc: Oscar Carter , Kees Cook , kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org X-BeenThere: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Learn about the Linux kernel List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:07:40AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 04:39:15PM +0200, Oscar Carter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been working in the KSPP task number 20: "Enable -Wcast-function-type > > globally" [1] but now I have some questions about the development process. > > > > I sent a v3 patch for the firewire subsystem [2] and a v5 patch series for > > the acpi/irqchip subsystems [3]. During the process I've received comments > > and suggestions about my work but now these two threads have no responses > > in three weeks. > > > > When I've send patches to the staging area if they have no responses, in a > > few days I received a mail from Greg to tell me that the specific patch had > > been applied to one of the branches of his git tree. > > > > Now, what it's the correct workflow out of the staging area? Are these > > patches in a process of been applied or have they been forgotten? Do I need > > to insist? And how? > > > > [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/20 > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200530090839.7895-1-oscar.carter@gmx.com/ > > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200530143430.5203-1-oscar.carter@gmx.com/ > > Each subsystem works in different ways, but almost always, after 3 > weeks, you can send a nice response to your patches of "hey, any > comments on this?" if you haven't heard anything. > > Note that during the 2 week merge window, developers can not take new > patches, so that sometimes does cause extra delays. > > good luck! > > greg k-h Thanks for all this information and advices. It helps me a lot. Thanks, Oscar Carter _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies