[Ksummit-discuss] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Tue Sep 6 00:57:44 UTC 2016


On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 08:44:01AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05 2016, Mark Brown wrote:

> >> > support needed for shipping product. My pet peeve is support for
> >> > charging over USB, where Linaro has had a patch set
> >> > being stalled and/or ignored by the USB maintainer for 2 years!!

> >> Do you have a link to that?  I have an interest in charging over USB.

> > This is it:

> >     https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/1/35

> > it's been more like one year than two and there has been progress but
> > there's also been an awful lot of latency in the process too.

> Really?  That is worthy of a "pet peeve"?
> The patch set does highlight an important area of missing functionality,
> but doesn't (IMO) display much understanding of the problem space.  I'm
> not surprised it hasn't made progress.

> Maybe I should reply to the patch directly.

Yes, please - if we're just not providing feedback that's very
unhelpful, if there's problems then we should be saying so.  Not only
does it mean that there's no feedback that the submitters can use to
improve things the existence of an actively worked on patch series has a
chilling effect on other people who might want to work in the same area
but don't want to duplicate effort.  People do just not work on things
they see other people actively working on and pick some other task
instead, assuming the first thing they thought of will get taken care of
in due course.

Things do of course fall through the cracks or get delayed from time to
time so submitters should be prepared to handle that but equally it's
hard for people to improve without feedback.
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