Re: Question about submitting patches

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On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:03:57 -0600 Noah Watkins wrote:

> Pardon the newbie question here, this email is in reference to two
> additional emails that I just sent to janitors list:
> 
>   [PATCH 1/2] zram: make global var "devices" use unique name
>   [PATCH 2/2] zram: make global var "num_devices" use unique name
> 
> Originally I had submitted these patches to Nitin Gupta (zram guy),
> Greg KH, and linux-next
> 
> I didn't receive a response, but then realized I didn't actually know
> what to expect. I checked out all the relevant docs on submitting

Some maintainers reply when they merge a patch and some don't.
GregKH usually does, but with a time lag of up to roughly 1 week.

> patches, but it all seems a bit nebulous still. Does this submission
> look OK?

Do those variable names currently cause a problem?
They are not static, but they also are not exported symbols [EXPORT_SYMBOL()].

Do these patches fix any reported warnings?  If so, you should include those
warning messages and what tool reported them.

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