On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:07:40AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 04:39:15PM +0200, Oscar Carter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been working in the KSPP task number 20: "Enable -Wcast-function-type > > globally" [1] but now I have some questions about the development process. > > > > I sent a v3 patch for the firewire subsystem [2] and a v5 patch series for > > the acpi/irqchip subsystems [3]. During the process I've received comments > > and suggestions about my work but now these two threads have no responses > > in three weeks. > > > > When I've send patches to the staging area if they have no responses, in a > > few days I received a mail from Greg to tell me that the specific patch had > > been applied to one of the branches of his git tree. > > > > Now, what it's the correct workflow out of the staging area? Are these > > patches in a process of been applied or have they been forgotten? Do I need > > to insist? And how? > > > > [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/20 > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200530090839.7895-1-oscar.carter@xxxxxxx/ > > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200530143430.5203-1-oscar.carter@xxxxxxx/ > > Each subsystem works in different ways, but almost always, after 3 > weeks, you can send a nice response to your patches of "hey, any > comments on this?" if you haven't heard anything. > > Note that during the 2 week merge window, developers can not take new > patches, so that sometimes does cause extra delays. > > good luck! > > greg k-h Thanks for all this information and advices. It helps me a lot. Thanks, Oscar Carter _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
