I know it takes more than a day to take a patch in, however I just wanted to know a little more about the process. Sorry about the 3 emails. If you look at the headers you will notice they are all from different email accounts. I had trouble with my email and I did not see my messages post to the mailing list. Thanks for your advice and input.... I was just wondering how one checks the status of it. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:01:51PM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 19:12 -0500, Michael Spradling wrote: > > Does anyone have any comments, how do I know if this patch is ever taken in... > Yes (but perhaps not the one you expected;-). > A review takes usually more than a day (since people tend to have other, > higher priorities too). And BTW it doesn't speed up if you send the same > 3 times without good reason (and if there is a good reason, there is no > need to hide it). And the subject as above is *much* better (as it > describes the intentions of the patch and not your personal ones) than > the one on the 1st mail. > > A good way to speed up the review process is to send the mail also > directly to the relevant maintainers and interested people (and probably > the big kernel-mailinglist. No need to subscribe it - it is expected > that people use Reply-to-all and not delete any Cc:s - unless you really > know what you do[0]). The simplest way is to use > scripts/get_maintainer.pl to get a list of probably interested and > *relevant* (read: subsystem maintainer) people/mailing-lists. > > Even if 5 people review and ack-it hereover, it is no help as long as > the maintainer(s) ignore it (or NACK it for whatever reason). > > As for the patch as such: Not that I looked into the framebuffer > driver(s) or anywhere else, but it's probably good to also mention why > you believe that that functions are dead code. > There basically two possibilities: Was in for ages and isn't used any > longer or is needed for new features. And the subsystem maintainer > should know (and I don't know - so I can't comment on it) ..... > > > Is there a server somewhere that shows integration status > Not until you run one;-) > You usually should get some feedback who is taking it and - depending on > subsystem, it's maintainer, the length of the chain towards Linux, > release dates, etc. - it eventually shows up in mainline and you may get > some status mails before (e.g. AKPM has scripts which also report > towards submitters - and reviewers IIRC). > > Bernd > > [0]: *If* you really know what you do, you will know it on your own. > Before, just stick to the rule;-) > -- > Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ > mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 > Embedded Linux Development and Services > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
