From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753898AbbDGL2a (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 07:28:30 -0400 Received: from mail-vn0-f45.google.com ([209.85.216.45]:41834 "EHLO mail-vn0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752381AbbDGL22 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 07:28:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150407110049.GA11218@kroah.com> References: <93bd3fb8db14c75508f7169840824539a3f89606.1427759010.git.joe@perches.com> <20150331085320.GR27490@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20150331090349.GA16604@gmail.com> <1427820400.10376.23.camel@perches.com> <20150407091246.GA9673@gmail.com> <20150407110049.GA11218@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:28:27 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 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) From: Richard Weinberger To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ingo Molnar , Joe Perches , Peter Zijlstra , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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. > > Some maintainers, like me, are fine with your types of patches, I'd > stick to those subsystems if you like doing this type of work. Can't we send all these kind of patches through the trivial tree? Don't get me wrong, if you are fine with these patches that's you decision. But other maintainers might think they have to take these patches and get overloaded. I'm thinking of drivers maintainers that can only work one or two hours per week on Linux. Not everyone works full time on it like you. I propose to send all this stuff though the trivial tree such that maintainers of other subsystems have less workload and newbies (which are supposed to send such patches) know which tree they have to work against. Let's have to well defined and ordered. :-) -- Thanks, //richard