On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:56:31PM -0400, valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:26:38 -0700, Joe Smith said: > > I understand the guidelines for submitting a PATCH and they are quite > > rigorous. What about submitting an RFC, since RFC is just to get early > > comments do I have to make sure that each patch in the RFC compiles or > > is it OK if all patches together compile and are there any other > > corners that I can cut. > > The fewer corners you cut at the RFC stage, the less fixing you'll have to do > if response is favorable. In particular, making sure the patch series is > bisectable (by making sure the kernel will still build and run after each patch > in the series) will save you a lot of restructuring of your commits later. > > Plus, there's always the danger that the subsystem maintainer will see the > series, decide it's both (a) needed and (b) just fine as it is, and commit it. :) Or they could be like me, and choose (c) and just ignore RFC patches as obviously the submitter doesn't think it is worthy enough to be committed, so why review it? :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
