From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:55:48 -0800
> Kinda funny. I (and I bet lots of others) spend a lot of time > fixing, cleaning up and totally rewriting patch titles. It's probably the majority of the typing I perform to apply a patch except for the folks who format things the way that works best for me. I realize that I can't get every patch submitter to conform to what I want, but at least I try to nudge the people who submit the most stuff to me. And it's just as much to "help me out" as it is that I want the changelogs header lines to look consistent. I'm going to enforce that consistency anyways. :-) But if people submit patches in a way that makes life difficult for the subsystem maintainer, and keeps doing so after being asked to adjust their submissions a little bit, well... some patches might get mysteriously ignored. When you're submitting a lot of patches you're chewing up a LOT of someone's bandwidth. I often spend at least 45 minutes a day on network namespace patches, as one specific example. That's a large investment of time to give someone. In return it's asking very little to "make your subject lines look like this, it helps me a lot, kthx". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
