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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conduct
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:21:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5523D9EE.5070001@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150407111855.GD14136@gmail.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-07 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-30 23:45 [PATCH 00/25] treewide: Use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0 Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:45 ` [Bridge] " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:45 ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:45 ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:45 ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:45 ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:45 ` [PATCH 01/25] arm: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:45   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31 15:54   ` Tony Lindgren
2015-03-31 15:54     ` Tony Lindgren
2015-03-31 15:58   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-31 15:58     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-31 16:05     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-03-31 16:05       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-03-31 16:05       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 02/25] arm64: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31 15:29   ` Will Deacon
2015-03-31 15:29     ` Will Deacon
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 03/25] hexagon: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 04/25] ia64: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 05/25] mips: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 06/25] powerpc: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  1:49   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-31  1:49     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-31  1:49     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-31  1:49     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-31  1:57     ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  1:57       ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  1:57       ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 07/25] s390: " Joe Perches
2015-03-31  7:13   ` Heiko Carstens
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 08/25] sparc: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 09/25] tile: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 10/25] unicore32: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 11/25] x86: " Joe Perches
2015-03-31 16:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 12/25] virtio_console: " Joe Perches
2015-03-31  5:32   ` Amit Shah
2015-03-31  5:32     ` Amit Shah
2015-03-30 23:46 ` Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 13/25] csiostor: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 14/25] dcache: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 15/25] nfsd: nfs4state: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 16/25] include/linux: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  7:41   ` Lee Jones
2015-03-31  7:41     ` Lee Jones
2015-03-31  7:41     ` Lee Jones
2015-04-06 19:39   ` Sebastian Reichel
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 17/25] sound: " Joe Perches
2015-03-31  7:11   ` Mark Brown
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 18/25] rcu: tree_plugin: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 19/25] sched: " Joe Perches
2015-03-31  8:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-31  9:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-31 16:46       ` Joe Perches
2015-04-01  6:58         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-07  9:12         ` about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conduct (was: Re: [PATCH 19/25] sched: Use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0) Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07  9:27           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07  9:36           ` about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conflict " Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07  9:39             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07 11:00           ` about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conduct " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-07 11:18             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07 11:27               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-07 13:21               ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2015-04-07 11:28             ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-07 11:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-07 11:50                 ` about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conduct Richard Weinberger
2015-04-07 13:21                   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-04-07 13:28                     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-07 12:31                 ` about the flood of trivial patches and the Code of Conduct (was: Re: [PATCH 19/25] sched: Use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0) Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-04-07 13:28                   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-04-08 23:37                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-04-09  0:04                       ` Joe Perches
2015-04-13 12:17                       ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-04-08  3:22                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-04-07 12:35           ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  9:09     ` [PATCH 19/25] sched: Use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0 Joe Perches
2015-04-01  5:17   ` Jason Low
2015-04-01  5:46     ` [PATCH V2 " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 20/25] ftrace: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 21/25] slub: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46   ` Joe Perches
2015-04-01  3:29   ` David Rientjes
2015-04-01  3:29     ` David Rientjes
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 22/25] bridge: " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46   ` [Bridge] " Joe Perches
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 23/25] netfilter: " Joe Perches
2015-03-31 16:58   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 24/25] security: " Joe Perches
2015-03-31  6:03   ` John Johansen
2015-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH 25/25] sound: wm5100-tables: " Joe Perches
2015-04-01 11:54   ` Charles Keepax
2015-03-31  0:07 ` [PATCH 00/25] treewide: " Casey Schaufler
2015-03-31  0:07 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-03-31  0:07   ` [Bridge] " Casey Schaufler
2015-03-31  0:07   ` Casey Schaufler
2015-03-31  0:07   ` Casey Schaufler
2015-03-31  0:07   ` Casey Schaufler
2015-03-31  0:14   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  0:14   ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  0:14     ` [Bridge] " Joe Perches
2015-03-31  0:14     ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  0:14     ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  0:14     ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  0:14     ` Joe Perches
2015-03-31  0:14     ` Joe Perches

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