On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 22:20 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 01:56:49PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > > On 03/09/2017 01:51 PM, Scott Branden wrote: > > > Hi Julia, > > > > > > On 17-03-09 12:36 PM, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I discussed the issue of outreachy patches for bcm with Greg, > > > > and we are > > > > not convinced that not having the patches CCd to you is such a > > > > good idea. > > > > While we don't want to spam you with noise, some of the > > > > applicants are > > > > starting to make more significant changes that it could be > > > > useful for you > > > > to be aware of. > > > > > > > > Could we try a compromise where you are not CCd on whitespace > > > > patches, > > > > but > > > > you are CCd on patches that actually modify the code? > > > > > > All I'm asking is you work through your outreachy patches > > > internal first > > > to get rid of the most basic mistakes and email traffic it is > > > geerating. > > > Once that learning process is through then they can be sent out > > > like > > > any other patches to the kernel mailing lists and maintainers. > > > > +1 from me too; I find these patches rather high volume and had to > > add a > > filter to keep them out of my primary inbox. > > Hah! That's the joy of being a maintainer of a driver in > staging. Even > if you filter out outreachy, you are going to get a lot of "basic > mistakes" and other type patches cc:ed to you. > > I strongly suggest, that if you all don't like this type of stuff, > either: > - work to get the code out of staging as soon as possible (i.e. > send me coding style fixes for everything right now, and then > fix up the rest of the stuff.) > - take yourself off the maintainer list for this code. > > It's your choice, outreachy right now is a lot of patches, but again, > it's not going to keep you from getting the "basic" stuff sent to you > in ways that is totally wrong. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > Hi Greg, I just noticed this e-mail. What exactly is the requirement to get a driver or subsystem out of staging? I can image a day when vc04_services or VideoCore gets moved out of staging at some point. What exactly would it take to make something like that happen? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
