On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 12:10 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry thought you don't mind a few patches, so ditched the formalities > for the pull. So I don't mind patches per se, and when there's a reason for them I have no problem at all taking them. The reason is typically something like "let's short-circuit the normal channels just to get this trivial thing sorted out and we can forget about it", but it can also be just a practical thing like "I'm traveling so it would be easier if you'd just pick up this patch directly from the mailing list". Or it could be "I don't have a git tree since I'm not a main developer, so I just send patches". All of those are situations where I'll happily take patches directly. But on the whole, when there isn't any real reason to avoid a pull request, I'd much rather have the full thing with signature and everything... Linus