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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:47:20AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:25:51 +0100
> Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:20:43PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> 
> One of the issues with newcomers coming to development of the Linux
> kernel, is that every maintainer is different. We should be trying
> harder to let people know what we prefer. Every maintainer expects
> something different, but it's up to the maintainer to explicitly let
> others know what they want. You can't expect everyone to read your mind.
Then in my opinion, it will be better if every maintainer has a script
which will reply automatically on receiving a patch that if the patch is
not applied within xxx days then please send a ping / resend the patch.

regards
sudip