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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:29:00 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/development-process: add info on
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On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:26:36 -0600 Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:17:05 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > +-  Please note that most maintainers also have day jobs, so merging
> > +   your patch may not be their highest priority.  If your patch is
> > +   getting feedback about changes that are needed, you should either
> > +   make those changes or justify why they should not be made.  If your
> > +   patch has no review complaints but is not being merged by its
> > +   appropriate subsystem or driver maintainer, you should be persistent
> > +   in updating the patch to the current kernel so that it applies cleanly
> > +   and keep sending it for review & merging.
> 
> I'd prefer to spell out "and" in that last line, being the sort of
> person that I am.  Either way:
> 
> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

OK, I'll change that.  Thanks for looking.

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~Randy