Re: [PATCH] regulator: Ensure unique regulator debugfs directory names

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 11/17/2014 03:26 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:00:09PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 08:17:03AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
>>> To avoid the problem, prepend the debugfs directory name for a regulator
>>> with its parent device name if available, but only if no explicit
>>> regulator name was provided.
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> did you have time to look into this patch ?
>
> Please don't send contentless, quoted pings.  One of two things will be
> true: either your patch got lost in which case a quoted copy is of no
> use in getting the patch applied or the patch is buried under other mail
> in which case you are at best adding to the email volume and at worst
> your mail will never be seen as it's threaded in with the original send.
>

Hi Mark,

Sorry, I have no idea how you expect me (and others) to handle situations
like this, much less with this patch. Please keep in mind that this is
a per-maintainer process, and each maintainer handles things differently.
Individual maintainers may expect me to send a ping like I did, or to
resend the patch, or they may not reply because they dislike the patch
and they don't want to be bothered with a discussion. Some even go
ballistic if they get an e-mail with more than 80 columns of text.

Negotiating a minefield sometimes seems easier than submitting kernel
patches :-(.

I can't even find out by browsing the regulator mailing list since it
appears that there is no such list.

Guenter