Re: [PATCH 29/29] drivers/regulator: Update WARN uses

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > > Align arguments.
> 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > > but please do remember to send patches to maintainers - trying to merge
> > > patches without going through the maintainers means that people working
> > > on the actual tree concerned may either replicate your work or introduce
> > > conflicts with your patches, neither of which is good.
> 
> > That happened here:
> 
> > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/1/107
> 
> > but the patch is not in linux-next after more than one month. Which is why 
> > Joe is resending it for inclusion through my queue.
> 
> That's not a reason to drop people from the CCs when reposting, and when
> reposting it's always good to include any reviews you got previously.

Yes, collecting of the previously collected Acked-by: would definitely be 
good. Joe, could you please include it next time?

> Indeed, looking at the original posting you'll see he sent it directly
> to you first time around as well as CCing the maintainers.

Yes, but I am not merging these large series which span gazillion of 
subsystems at first. I only tend to act as a fallback for those parts of 
the series which were not merged by maintainers.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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