Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

From: Miles Lane (miles@megapathdsl.net)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 10:32:34 EST


On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Alan, could you delegate any of this work? Is it feasible to
> > have you redirect some portion of the patch analysis and acceptance
> > load to another person, other than Linus? Obviously, if the rate
>
> To be honest I get very little patch material I didnt want to track. I get
> lots of patches that are wrong, misguided, or otherwise flawed. However
> I want to see those patches so I can help get them fixed.

Obviously, there's huge value to the development community to get your
feedback on these flawed patches, as well. It strengthens the entire
community.

> On the whole people seem to be fairly good at sending stuff to obvious
> maintainers. Sometimes I bounce a few on. Big global changes to vm/vfs I tend
> to ignore because those kind of things tend to be stuff Linus cares a lot
> about getting right anyway.

Yeah. I sort of figured you'd shout if something really wasn't working.

Thanks Alan,

        Miles

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