Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> If Kalle is willing to cleanup the commit message in the current patch you >> are lucky. You are free to ask. Otherwise it should be not too much trouble >> resubmitting it. FWIW I can edit commit logs as long as the changes are simple and the edit instructions are clear, ie. it takes no more than a minute for me to do the edit. > It's even less trouble to just take it as is, since an extra "v2: " in > the commit message doesn't hurt anyone other than those who choose to be > hurt by it. And as I said there's *tons* of commits with a changelog > like this in Linux. It's not uncommon. > > I swear, some maintainers seem to take a perverse delight in making > things as painful as possible for submitters, even when there is > approximately zero benefit to the end result. And I say this as a > maintainer myself. > > Maybe y'all should be the ones feeling lucky that so many people are > willing to put up with all this bullshit to get things upstreamed to > Linux. It's literally the worst open source project to upstream things > to, by a *very long* shot. I'll respin a v4 if I must, but but it's. > Just. This. Kind. Of. Nonsense. Every. Single. Time. And. Every. Single. > Time. It's. Something. Different. This stuff burns people out and > discourages submissions and turns huge numbers of people off from ever > contributing to Linux, and you all need to seriously be aware of that. I understand it's frustrating but please also try understand us maintainers. For example, I have 150 patches in patchwork right now. So it's not easy for us maintainers either, far from it. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
