From: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to reviewers
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:24:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4ce8205-93a6-4ef5-94c0-1fb8d261bcac@t-8ch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZRVDv2fiFyW2S0z1@infradead.org>
Hi Christoph,
On 2023-09-28 02:13:35-0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> NAK.
That's honestly surprising.
I mentioned this process in various reviews before and nobody
had issues with it so far.
> This does not scale.
Could you elaborate in which way it doesn't scale?
> Please read the mailinglist, that's the whole
> point of having it.
When reviewing things in various subsystem this would require reading
all of LKML, which is impractical.
The goal of this patch was to make life easier for occasional reviewers.
If it negatively impacts the maintainers then that's not gonna work.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-29 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-27 18:52 Thomas Weißschuh
2023-09-28 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-28 9:17 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-09-29 7:24 ` Thomas Weißschuh [this message]
2023-10-02 6:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-02 7:36 ` Jani Nikula
2023-10-02 8:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-02 17:04 ` Thomas Weißschuh
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