On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:08:08PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > I can run the numbers, but almost every one of those changes has at > > least 2 signed-off-by: on them, so they should all be being reviewed > > properly. > > > > > AFAICS, we are in situation when review bandwidth is where the bottleneck > > > is. Not the merge one... > > > > Are there still large numbers of posted patches, not reviewed or picked > > up by anyone laying around somewhere? I thought Andrew-the-patch-vacuum > > had been doing a great job of keeping that from happening lately. > > Er... Surely you can think of examples of patches that went through > -mm without serious review? Not to mention that 2 S-o-B normally > means only one thing: "went to Linus through some tree". Which does > not guarantee any real review, as you damn well know. Yes, I agree, there are lots of examples of this, but the overall majority are reviewed by 2 people at least (or sure as hell should be, maybe we need to bring into existance the "reviewed-by" marking to ensure this.) Do you know of a way to help this get better? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html