From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756747AbYFWJkh (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:40:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753354AbYFWJk3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:40:29 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:33334 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753310AbYFWJk2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:40:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:22:55 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Ben Dooks Cc: Ben Dooks , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, wim@iguana.be Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] WATCHDOG: Clean out header of s3c2410_wdt driver. Message-ID: <20080623102255.49d602bb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080622230601.GD21835@fluff.org.uk> References: <20080622213648.343882522@fluff.org.uk> <20080622213721.925217733@fluff.org.uk> <20080622233516.0a233c61@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20080622230601.GD21835@fluff.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org O> > NAK. This is going to clash with the big pile of changes stuck in the > > maintainers in queue. > > Then why, as the original driver authour and current maintainer > do I not get told about this? This isn't the first time I've come > to apply this sort of thing and find that someone else has slipped > in an 'trivial' change such as whitespace that breaks an entire > patch series. > Do people not bother to check who wrote the driver or who is the > current maintainer before doing these things? Yes - and posted patch series to the lists. The entire watchdog tree went systematically through the cleanup process. Then I've queued a small series of patches which are a proposed rework of Wim's idea about changing the API for watchdogs entirely. It has slipped back out of sight of most people for ages because Wim has been attending to other things so it has been queued for about 3 weeks. Alan