From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m33so282274wag for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:40:39 -0400 From: "Michael Chang" Subject: Re: [ck] Re: howto get a patch merged (WAS: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23) In-Reply-To: <20070725160743.GB8284@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <367a23780707250830i20a04a60n690e8da5630d39a9@mail.gmail.com> <20070725160743.GB8284@elte.hu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kacper Wysocki , david@lang.hm, Nick Piggin , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck list , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Jackson , Andrew Morton , Rene Herman List-ID: On 7/25/07, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Kacper Wysocki wrote: > > > [snip howto get a patch merged] > > > > But a "here is a solution, take it or leave it" approach, before > > > having communicated the problem to the maintainer and before having > > > debugged the problem is the wrong way around. It might still work > > > out fine if the solution is correct (especially if the patch is > > > small and obvious), but if there are any non-trivial tradeoffs > > > involved, or if nontrivial amount of code is involved, you might see > > > your patch at the end of a really long (and constantly growing) > > > waiting list of patches. > > > > Is that what happened with swap prefetch these two years? The approach > > has been wrong? > > i dont know - but one of the maintainers of the code (Nick) says that he > asked for but did not get debug feedback: Perhaps this is unimportant now, I don't know, but who did he ask? Where did he ask? Where should the feedback have gone? (For example, is he subscribed to -ck?) To be perfectly honest, I find this very surprising, considering the number of people that appear to be supporting this patch. I can only wonder whether it's possible this request never got to any of them. -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org