On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Mandeep Sandhu > <mandeepsandhu.chd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> > >>> > Is it possible to use a github repository and just send a "please pull >>> > from git@xxxxxxxxxx...." message to the kernel mailinglist, or will I >>> > be beaten for this? >>> > >>> You cannot directly send a pull request until the patches are reviewed, >>> once the the driver maintainer and other folks in the ML are happy, the >>> maintainer will pull your patches and get it merged in mainline kernel. >> >> >> If using github, I think send pull requests is a way to initiate a review. >> It does not mean that that pull request will be merged as-is. As you point >> out, if there are review comments, the reviewee will address those comments >> and send another pull request till the reviewer is satisfied. After that the >> reviewer just has to 'merge' the latest pull request. >> > > For reviewing patches on the mailing list you don't send pull request, > ! patches needs > to be sent to ML to be reviewed !. > > For example look at [1] which is pull request to Linus. The pull request will > just have the patch description(it doesnt have the diff), and the link > to pull the patches from. People dont have time to go to your link and > review the > patches there and reply on your pull request. > "So you need to send patches to ML for review and not pull request" > Ahh missed the link. [1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.0/02639.html Thanks, --Prabhakar Lad _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
