Op wo 14 jul. 2021 om 17:26 schreef Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On 7/14/21 7:28 AM, Henk wrote: > > Can you be more specific? > > > > Not a single one of your patch submissions followed the guidelines in > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Most common violations are: > > - No or insufficient patch description > See 'Describe your changes' > - Patch sent as attachment > See 'No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments. Just plain text' > - Instead of sending a patch, sent pointer to github location > > You could just set up git send-email and use it to send your patches, > as suggested in submitting-patches.rst. Not doing that has cost both > of us a lot of time, for no good reason. I don't know about your time, > but I am not getting paid for my work as Linux kernel maintainer, > and my time is limited. > > You for sure have accomplished one thing: A new formletter. > > <Formletter> > Please follow the guidelines in > Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > when submitting patches into the hardware monitoring subsystem. > Patches not following those guidelines will be ignored. > </Formletter> > > Guenter > Hi Guenter, I am in similar position as you, my Linux work is unpaid and voluntary and not subsidized as some of the other contributions are. I am extremely grateful of the work that maintainers do and apologize for the inconvenience that I may have caused. Also I wish to thank you for the new form letter. I would have send a pointer to my github location at first impulse however: I forked torvalds/linux from github in the understanding that it would allow me to create a proper documented pull request that could be routed trough the proper channels. However then i discovered after patching the file that I was not allowed to create a pull request, which is quite annoying. So I am looping in the Linuxfoundation in this mail in order to ask them to please reconsider their current policy and allow the creation of pull requests on gitgub/torvalds/linux . This would greatly reduce the amount of overhead. I would also argue that the github commenting system, the automated build system, and the review system are quite good, and we have definitely made some progress in that area since the invention of the mailing-list. I understand the master repositories should reside on kernel.org but bringing in some of the feedback to the kernel via github could be quite beneficial! (Just occurred to me I can send a pointer to my own commit : https://github.com/hvegh/linux/commit/00b3427269f731becbc10e9fe92046a6ad91eee8 ) Kind regards, Henk Vergonet
