Re: [GIT PULL] staging/fieldbus-dev for 5.2

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 10:30:06AM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 10:24 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > And as this is just a single patch, handling them as patches is much
> > easier anyway.  Only when you get into the 20+ at a time does pull
> > requests help.
> >
> 
> Patches are much easier for me too, but I assumed this had to be done via a
> pull request.
> 
> How do you distinguish between a patch that's still spinning on the
> mailing list,
> and one coming from my next tree? The Reviewed-by or Acked-by tag?

If you forward it on, I trust that one :)

But for cleanup stuff, I'll take them from anyone usually, that's what
staging is there for.  I can wait until I see a reviewed or acked tag
from you before queueing it up, if you want me to.  I do that for some
portions of staging today as the maintainers of those areas want a
chance to test/review it.

thanks,

greg k-h