Re: [RFC][PATCH] SCHED_EDF scheduling class

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2009-09-23 07:50:59, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 14:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > >> discouraging contributions is more something that happens when you 
> > >> get the responses I got earlier in this thread..
> > >
> > > That's probably intentional.  Whitespace fixes have their place but 
> > > not at this stage in a patch's lifecycle.
> > 
> > Exactly. What might make sense is to scan linux-next for new commits 
> > that show serious cleanliness trouble - and send fix patches to the 
> > parties involved. That's a real effort and brings the code forward.
> 
> Often times when a patch is at youngest that when you want to catch
> these issues .. This EDF patch will likely get submitted more than
> twice. If you catch all the minor problems first you will not be dealing
> with them later when it comes time to include the code.

You  want to deal with them later, because many patches end up  in
trashcan...

Now, Ingo's idea of scanning -next (and fixing it) sounds sane...

								Pavel
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