Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] staging: vt6655: Implement allocation failure handling

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon Sep 19 2022 - 05:37:22 EST


On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:38:19AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 09:11:58AM +0200, Nam Cao wrote:
> > > Find in this email a comment from Greg about RFC:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/YwS4WDekXM3UQ7Yo@xxxxxxxxx/
> > > This patch is marked as "RFC" but I don't see any questions that you
> > > have here. Please resolve anything you think needs to be handled and
> > > submit a "this series is ok to be merged" version.
> > >
> > > May be this is applicable to this patch as well.
> >
> > I add the RFC tag to "tells maintainers should review your patch thoroughly,
> > and provide feedback. RFC is typically used when sending feature patches for
> > the first time, or anytime the patch is more than just a simple bug fix."
> > (from https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchTipsAndTricks). I was not aware that this
> > tag may be interpreted differently. I can send a new patchset if necessary.
>
> Clean up patches are much simpler than bug fixes. No need for an RFC.
>
> But this patch does too many things and Greg will not apply it.

Sorry, when I wrote this email I thought I was responding to a different
thread.

regards,
dan carpenter