Am 10.08.2012 11:00, schrieb Peter Maydell: > On 10 August 2012 09:48, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: >> Actually there were better patches for the same bug by Meador, including >> git-style rather than SVN patches and adding a helper to initialize it >> consistently at all call sites. >> >> There's also DSP, Octeon, mips64 and signal handling patches around that >> someone needs to volunteer to update, test, clean up and queue. >> That a patch is on the list doesn't imply that it "just" needs to be >> applied though. So please be careful which patches you ping. > > Yes, hence my suggestion to look for patches which got reviewed. > > (Although speaking as somebody who has in the past submitted patches > which got neither reviewed nor rejected, I have some sympathy for the > idea that if nobody among us cares enough to look at a patch at all the > default should be to apply it.)
>From my memory Maciej himself retracted his patches in reaction to a reply from his colleague Meador. That might not show up when looking at just one unthreaded reply-less patch, so in general ack but needs to look at context, too. Doing follow-ups based on this one or, in worst case, reverting is certainly possible but the decision-making would best be done by someone who actually uses mips - not that there's no users, just no volunteer for a staging tree yet. /-F -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
