[PATCH 0/2] ASoC: SOF: initialise work immediately

Guennadi Liakhovetski guennadi.liakhovetski at linux.intel.com
Wed Mar 25 12:10:45 CET 2020


On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 02:48:22PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 02:58:56PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 01:30:42PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > As documented in submitting-patches.rst please send patches to the 
> > > maintainers for the code you would like to change.  The normal kernel
> > > workflow is that people apply patches from their inboxes, if they aren't
> > > copied they are likely to not see the patch at all and it is much more
> > > difficult to apply patches.
> 
> > I know that different maintainers have different preferences. For example 
> > in the subsysteem, where I'd worked for about 10 years the maintainer 
> > preferred not to be CCed on patches, he preferred to pick up patches from 
> > his mailing list folders, or whatever arrangement his mail filters 
> > provided for. I learned already that in ALSA / ASoC it's usual to CC 
> > maintainers. But I wasn't sure whether that also holds for larger patch 
> > series. E.g. my main patch series now consists of 14 patches, so, I 
> > thought, that maybe you would rather not receive multiple copies of the 
> > entire seriees for each new version both directly in your inbox and in 
> > the mailing list folder. Or is it indeed your preference to always be 
> > CCed on all patches? I apologise for re-iterating a question, that 
> > probably had been addressed multiple times before, maybe it's worth 
> > documenting this somewhere on ALSA web?
> 
> Yes, copy me on patches.  This is, as covered in what I wrote above, the
> standard and documented approach for the kernel - unless you explicitly
> know that there is some unusual approach for a specific subsystem you
> should assume that if you want people to see your patches you need to
> send the patches to them.

Got it, thanks!


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