From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761634AbYDZUuL (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:50:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755314AbYDZUt7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:49:59 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:34633 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753881AbYDZUt7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:49:59 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <48139554.7030603@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:49:24 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080419 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Harvey Harrison , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , LKML Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit References: <1209190455.14173.13.camel@brick> <20080426110044.GB2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080426075132.b0fdbe13.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080426152341.GI2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080426084420.8e61c379.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080426171604.GN2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <481379BB.5050208@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20080426133049.187e255c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080426133049.187e255c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Often it takes quite a long time for problems to become apparent. Across a > month or two we end up with things like: [...] > that's two patches, each with three followon fixes. Very common. > > Fact is, this is the way in which developers want to work. That is their > workflow, and their tools should follow their workflow. If a tool's > behaviour prevents them from implementing their desired workflow, it isn't > the workflow which should be changed ;) Well, some of the questions here, notably - when to fold patch + amendment patch into a single patch - when to publish things to whom are actually about the workflow, not about the tool. (And it's good to learn of other people's expectations about it.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-- ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/