On 2012-Nov-05 23:45:00 +0100, Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote: >On 2012-11-05 23:36, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> I'm fine with the change, but why didn't you run this by the various >> driver owners first before doing a drive-by commit? > >The change was trivial, and did not cause any binary difference. I see >no reason to bother 20 different maintainers with something like this, >except bureaucratic ones... :)
A bit belated but I think you've missed the most important reason why you should warn maintainers: You can be creating additional effort for maintainers. There is an ongoing push to make head more stable by pushing experimental development into "private" branches which can then be merged back to head once the functionality is stable. Whilst there may not be a binary difference, you are creating source changes. If you've changed something that a maintainer is actively working on, they need to take the time to work out if the change is still relevant and whether it impacts the testing they have done. -- Peter Jeremy
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