On 7/25/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Kacper Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip howto get a patch merged] > > But a "here is a solution, take it or leave it" approach, before > > having communicated the problem to the maintainer and before having > > debugged the problem is the wrong way around. It might still work > > out fine if the solution is correct (especially if the patch is > > small and obvious), but if there are any non-trivial tradeoffs > > involved, or if nontrivial amount of code is involved, you might see > > your patch at the end of a really long (and constantly growing) > > waiting list of patches. > > Is that what happened with swap prefetch these two years? The approach > has been wrong? i dont know - but one of the maintainers of the code (Nick) says that he asked for but did not get debug feedback:
Perhaps this is unimportant now, I don't know, but who did he ask? Where did he ask? Where should the feedback have gone? (For example, is he subscribed to -ck?) To be perfectly honest, I find this very surprising, considering the number of people that appear to be supporting this patch. I can only wonder whether it's possible this request never got to any of them. -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
