On 6/28/21 6:02 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 03:28:59PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
[adding LKML]
ping?
Please don't send content free pings and please allow a reasonable time for review. People get busy, go on holiday, attend conferences and so on so unless there is some reason for urgency (like critical bug fixes) please allow at least a couple of weeks for review. If there have been review comments then people may be waiting for those to be addressed.
a. The entire email/patch was there. Should I put the ping _after_ the patch? Would that help?
b. What do you consider a reasonable time? The patch was sent 28 days prior to this gentle ping.
Sending content free pings adds to the mail volume (if they are seen at all) which is often the problem and since they can't be reviewed directly if something has gone wrong you'll have to resend the patches anyway, so sending again is generally a better approach though there are some other maintainers who like them - if in doubt look at how patches for the subsystem are normally handled.
Yes, I shall resend the patch. Thanks.