[GIT PULL V2 2/2] ARM: mvebu: MSI mvebu changes for v3.12

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue Sep 3 14:25:16 EDT 2013


On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:47:01AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> 
> > Usually one of you pokes me within a few days if something is wrong.
> > Had that happened, we wouldn't be here right now.
> 
> Yes, we usually try to be quicker at doing merges. We had a few that
> took quite long this merge cycle. Summer breaks, travel, and
> maintainer handoff and getting up to speed are all factors in that.

Fair enough.

> > So, my more rational response to this is: How do we prevent this in the
> > future?  If I don't hear anything from you in a few days, should I poke
> > Arnd/Kevin to take a look at it?  I'm not really keen on making noise
> > like that by default.  Any other ideas?
> 
> Always send your merge requests to arm at kernel.org, that way everybody
> gets them. 

Hmm... This is the first I heard of that alias.  I've always sent to
both of you (Arnd and Olof) regardless of who looked to be more active.
I'll add that to my alias list.

> Just as the rule of thumb with patches, if you haven't heard back
> within a week, please ping us to see if we missed it.  Especially true
> when -rc7 rolls around.
> 
> Send those pings to the same alias. It's possible that we handed off
> between each other so that the other person is handling merge requests
> at that time, but you don't have to worry about that if you use the
> alias.

Will do.

thx,

Jason.



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