On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 08:28:05AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Mark Brown wrote:
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.
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.
This warning doesn't seem fit at all. The patch was submitted three weeks ago.
There's two bits there - one is that it's adding to the mail volume when people chase up, the other is that if things have been lost then almost always the answer is that I don't have the patch any more (or it'll be error prone to find) and it'll need a resend so it's better to chase up by resending the patch since that can be acted on directly.