From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B4CB122B for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ua1-f67.google.com (mail-ua1-f67.google.com [209.85.222.67]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD16E8D for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ua1-f67.google.com with SMTP id m11-v6so21470249uao.11 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:03:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20180907004944.GD16300@sasha-vm> <20180907014930.GE16300@sasha-vm> <20180907145437.GF16300@sasha-vm> <20180910194310.GV16300@sasha-vm> <20180910164519.6cbcc116@vmware.local.home> <20180910212019.GA32269@roeck-us.net> <20180911111853.GB8018@sirena.org.uk> <20180911170212.GC8284@roeck-us.net> <87k1nsdkl6.fsf@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <87k1nsdkl6.fsf@intel.com> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:03:11 +0200 Message-ID: To: Jani Nikula Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Bug-introducing patches List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 7:13 PM Jani Nikula wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > FWIW, for the most part I stopped reporting issues with -next after some people > > yelled at me for the 'noise' I was creating. Along the line of "This has been > > fixed in branch xxx; why don't you do your homework and check there", with > > branch xxx not even being in -next. > > What would be the reason for *not* having all the branches, including > fixes, of a subsystem/driver in linux-next? Baffled. The same reason why there may be a periof of a few weeks in between receiving an "applied" email response, and discovering the branch has finally been updated on git.kernel.org? "release early, release often". Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds