I don't mind waiting. I am just honestly trying to improve my rep here and actually(hopefully) get a job doing this full time. Cheers Nick On 14-10-29 04:45 AM, Scott Lovenberg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Sudip Mukherjee > <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Scott Lovenberg >> <scott.lovenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Sudip Mukherjee >>> <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:31 AM, nick <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Greg, >>>>> That's fine, I was wondering how long Greg KH takes to get around to picking this up as he is very busy with >>>>> other kernel work. >>>> >>>> it might take a long long time. i think he is very busy now. I have >>>> not seen his replies to patches in the kernel list for atleast last 3 >>>> weeks. >>>> >>> [snip] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Kernelnewbies mailing list >>>> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >>> >>> >>> >>> Nah. Greg KH is a robot. I'm firmly convinced that man doesn't >>> sleep. If I didn't know better, I'd think he's a Cylon. >> well said. >> >>> On a serious note; realistically, a two week window isn't unheard of >>> for getting your patches to mainline. So long as you're not trying to >> >> mine is three weeks going on now. somehow i have managed to send my >> patches just at the beginning of the merge window. :( >> yesterday i saw Greg K-H releasing the stable patches , so i guess now >> he will be seeing the pending staging patches. > > It also depends on how many hops you are to the maintainer and how > heavy their workload is. Sometimes you can directly submit to them, > other times your patches will be passed through three trees before > they see mainline. It all depends on what you're working on and who's > in your "circle". > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
