>> How do you think about to resolve them by additional means besides mail exchange? > > That can work. I am curious to find out which other communication means could really help here. > E.g. meeting at conferences often solved mail communication problems. I find my resources too limited at the moment to attend conferences on site. How are the chances for further clarification by ordinary telephone calls? > For now, I still wonder why you were unsure about grouping the changes > into one patch? I am varying the patch granularity for affected software areas to some degree. But I came also places along where I got an impression for higher uncertainty. > Maybe there is something to be learned? This is also generally possible. Would you like to extend the scope for the change pattern around questionable error messages from a single source file to whole subsystem trees in Linux? Regards, Markus -- 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