From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935152AbYD1S46 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:56:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933717AbYD1S4n (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:56:43 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:46842 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933241AbYD1S4m (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:56:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:56:08 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Dmitri Vorobiev , tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro Subject: Re: x86: fix a couple of sparse warnings Message-ID: <20080428185608.GZ2813@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1209338159-30095-1-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> <20080428123809.GD27997@elte.hu> <20080428133756.GJ16379@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <90edad820804280643p43509911gd7b497131c3f5004@mail.gmail.com> <20080428135957.GK16379@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080428150156.GA7412@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080428150156.GA7412@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:01:56PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:43:25PM +0400, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: > > > 2008/4/28 Adrian Bunk : > > > > > > > > /me wonders what was wrong with http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/23/131 > > > > that contains a superset of the first patch > > > > (and got no response at all) > > > > > > Adrian, I am sorry for duplicating your work. The clash wasn't > > > intentional: I did not notice your earlier patch in the high traffic > > > of this mailing list. > > > > No problem, and I'm actually more interested why my patch got lost. > > It's simple: in this case i had two patches in my backlog, one from a > new person and one from a frequent contributor - doing the very same > change. I preferred the newbie's patch, to encourage Dmitri to keep > contributing to Linux and to help him learn from the experience of > working with various Linux maintainers. >... Every maintainer except you will teach the newbie where to find the current tree to avoid duplicating work... But OK, instead of spending my time duplicating later patches I'll put possible cleanups and bugs for x86 on a list and check 1 or 2 months later whether they are still present. > Ingo cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed