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> > Is this really such a major issue?  If you don't want cleanup patches,
> > just politely refuse them and point people at drivers/staging/ where I
> > will gladly take them.  It's not tough at all.
> > 
> It isn't tough or an issue for me, but I don't normally refuse cleanup
> patches either.

Politely pointing people at staging is an OK strategy, but I think newbies
would really prefer to know in advance that their patch has no chance of
being accepted.

julia

> > Or better yet, take Julia's advice, and just fix up your subsystem to
> > not need these patches at all.  That should take all of an afternoon's
> > worth of effort at most, drivers/scsi/ notwithstanding, that beast is
> > horrid...
> > 
> 
> Yes, that is what I am doing once in a while, if I need a timeout from other
> work. Since I don't mind cleanup patches, so I would set the tag to 'yes'
> for all files where I am listed as maintainer. But other maintainers do
> actively reject cleanup patches, sometimes with less then friendly words.
> 
> Without a tag, the result is to discourage cleanup patches in general,
> or what I would call the lowest common denominator. While I understand
> and accept that other maintainers dislike cleanup patches, I don't see
> why I should have to suffer the consequences.
> 
> Guenter
> 
>