From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759517AbYDZQjp (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:39:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754984AbYDZQjh (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:39:37 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56601 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753936AbYDZQjg (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:39:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:38:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Adrian Bunk cc: Harvey Harrison , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , LKML Subject: Re: [BUILDFIX PATCH] v4l/dvb: add statics to avoid multiple definitions In-Reply-To: <20080426100130.GA2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Message-ID: References: <1209175388.14173.10.camel@brick> <20080426100130.GA2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I'm wondering what I am doing wrong since I already sent the same patch > and it went not into Linus' tree. Why the hell are you even wondering? You didn't send the patch to me. It's that damn simple. Harvey did. I do *not* troll the internet for random patches to apply. But I do apply random patches that fix build errors etc, WHEN THEY ARE SENT TO ME. That said, I'm not asking people to send patches directly to me when there is a maintainer that can handle it, but obviously when people do send obvious patches that I feel comfy applying and make sense to apply, I'll do so. In other words, don't send cleanup patches to me when there is a maintainer, but if there is a build fix or an oops/security fix that you want to go into my tree asap, feel free to short-circuit maintainership. This should be neither new nor surprising to anybody. Linus