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Skip Ford wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>I don't do any pre-patches or daily patches any more, because it's all
>>automated.  There are several snapshot bots that give you patches a lot
>>more often than "every 2 days".  You don't need BK to use it, it's there
>>in the good old diff format. 
> 
> 
> However, a much larger percentage of patches are applied to your tree
> without a diff being posted to lkml first.

IMO this is very incorrect -- the high volume submitters have never 
posted their stuff to lkml when sending to Linus.   BK did not change 
this at all.  Andrew is the notable exception.  [1]


 > My only wish would be that
> you only accept patches through the mailing list,

that won't work for many reasons...   lots of uninteresting patches 
posted to lkml, security patches should go out-of-band, etc.  Do you 
_really_ want to see boring and huge arch merges posted to lkml?  Ug.  :)

	Jeff


[1] One might argue that Ingo is another exception, but I don't count 
him among the high-volume submitters.  This is not intended to diminish 
him, either:  Ingo probably has one of the highest "important/trivial" 
patch ratios of anybody in the kernel...