[PATCH] Improve slave/cyclic DMA engine documentation (was: [PATCH V4 04/14] DMA: PL330: Add DMA_CYCLIC capability)

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:07:44PM +0530, Jassi Brar wrote:
>>> Dear Vinod,
>>>
>>>  Since it came from the RMK, most probably it'll be the best.
>>>
>>> But applying patches upon personal timeout seems very dangerous.
>>
>> Ehh what?  Is there any contention over this documentation patch?
> I haven't yet read it... even after reading I would object only if I found
> your patch disturbing enough to disrupt my bowel movements. Which
> I don't think would be the case.
>
> I just observed it is second time that Vinod applied a patch without any
> ack or prior alert.

Applying patches without waiting for other Acks is absolutely a
reasonable thing for a maintainer to do.  The job of maintainership is
to apply good judgement on when patches can immediately be applied
(and therefore no longer consuming limited attention) and when patches
need further acks.

g.