On 10/17/2013 10:37 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 10/17/2013 10:21 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Chen Gang wrote:
>>
>>>> I think your patches should be acked before being merged into linux-next,
>>>> Hugh just had to revert another one that did affect Linus's tree in
>>>> 1ecfd533f4c5 ("mm/mremap.c: call pud_free() after fail calling
>>>> pmd_alloc()"). I had to revert your entire series of mpol_to_str()
>>>> changes in -mm. It's getting ridiculous and a waste of other people's
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If always get no reply, what to do, next?
>>>
>>
>> If nobody ever acks your patches, they probably aren't that important. At
>> the very least, something that nobody has looked at shouldn't be included
>> if it's going to introduce a regression.
>>
Or, need I provide 1-3 patches to let us evaluate whether they are
'important' or not?
>
> At least, that is not quite polite.
>
> And when get conclusion, please based on the proofs: "is it necessary to
> list them to check whether they are 'important' or not"?
>
>
>>> But all together, I welcome you to help ack/nack my patches for mm
>>> sub-system (although I don't know your ack/nack whether have effect or not).
>>>
>>
>> If it touches mm, then there is someone on this list who can ack it and
>> you can cc them by looking at the output of scripts/get_maintainer.pl. If
>> nobody is interested in it, or if it doesn't do anything important, nobody
>> is going to spend their time reviewing it.
>>
>
> Of cause, every time, I send patch according to "scripts/get_maintainer.pl".
>
> So again: "is it necessary to list them to check whether they are
> 'important' or not?"
>
>
>> I'm not going to continue this thread, the patch in question has been
>> removed from -mm so I have no further interest in discussing it.
>>
>>
>
> OK, end discussing if you no reply.
>
> Thanks.
>
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