On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 23:25 +0530, Jassi Brar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:07:44PM +0530, Jassi Brar wrote: > >> Dear Vinod, > >> > >> Since it came from the RMK, most probably it'll be the best. > >> > >> But applying patches upon personal timeout seems very dangerous. > > > > Ehh what? Is there any contention over this documentation patch? > I haven't yet read it... even after reading I would object only if I found > your patch disturbing enough to disrupt my bowel movements. Which > I don't think would be the case. Jassi, Since this was a doc patch, I applied it soon enough, doesn't sound dangerous to me ! If you have any updates you would like, pls feel free to send a patch. > > I just observed it is second time that Vinod applied a patch without any > ack or prior alert. And you can't ignore the fact that you had almost _two_ weeks to ack the patch from Rob, but.... You will get ample time to ack a patch, if you don't you can always point out and I will do the right thing, which in this case was to revert. > > > > >> People not responding doesn't mean only either people agree completely > >> or they don't care. Some might be interested but too busy with current tasks > >> that they need time to check... please make some policy for such cases. > >> > >> It already happened with the patch from Rob, which you probably have to > >> revert. > >> > >> IMHO, if nobody replied, maybe you could first ack the patch and wait > >> for, say a week, before applying? > >> That way people will know they have to hurry if they care otherwise > >> the patch is going upstream as such. > > > > A week is far too long. That's how patches get lost and missed. > > > He may decide to wait shorter, but imho a week after the first ack > isn't that long. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html