Patch Question

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:54:33AM -0600, Perry Hooker wrote:
> At this point, no one has commented on the accuracy of my analysis.
> Such comments are exactly what I'm hoping for (and what I requested -
> not "demanded" - in my replies).

As the one responsible for actually applying this specific patch, I find
this pretty "interesting"...

It's _your_ responsibility to convince me that your patch is correct and
should be applied.  If no one respondes after a week or so, resend it,
with your additional information in the changelog so that the same
conversation doesn't happen again.

Patches get dropped all the time, remember, I get _hundreds_ of them
every day.  If I see a disagreement on a patch, then it goes to the end
of the line, or usually just deleted from my queue.  I rely on the fact
that it's up to the submitter to resend and handle the discussion.

Yes, we waste engineering time and effort by doing this, and that's
fine, we have thousands of developers, but very few maintainers.  It's
their time that is valuable and the process is optimized for.

good luck!

greg k-h