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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH]
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:03:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160914130349.7ee76c3c@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473277661.29864.25.camel@perches.com>

On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:47:41 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> +If the patch or patch series is just a proposal to garner comments
> +use [RFC PATCH] before each patch subject.
> +
> +If the patch or patch seriies is incomplete or possibly contains known
> +defects and you would like others to see the work to date use
> +[WIP PATCH] before each patch subject.

It would be good to apply Randy's typo fix here.

Also, though, if we're going to do this, it's probably worth mentioning
that one should not expect patches marked RFC to be applied, and that
some maintainers may not even seriously review them. That seems to
surprise people regularly.

jon

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-06 13:03 [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-06 13:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-09-06 13:49   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-06 15:45   ` Lee Jones
2016-09-06 16:28     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-09-07 10:27       ` Lee Jones
2016-09-07 11:27         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-09-07 12:48           ` Lee Jones
2016-09-07 13:44             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-09-07 15:08               ` Lee Jones
2016-09-07 16:07                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-09-07 16:27                   ` Lee Jones
2016-09-07 16:36                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
     [not found]                     ` <1473265954.29864.15.camel@perches.com>
     [not found]                       ` <20160907163854.GE4921@dell>
2016-09-07 19:47                         ` rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH] Joe Perches
2016-09-07 21:49                           ` Randy Dunlap
2016-09-14 19:03                           ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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