Re: 2.6.17-rc2-mm1

[Grant Coady]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:19:30 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I don't like dropping patches.  Because then the thing needs to be fixed up
>and resent and remerged and re-reviewed and rejects need to re-fixed-up and
>this adds emailing overhead and 12-24 hour turnaround, etc.  I very much
>prefer to hang onto the patch and get it fixed up.  This means that I
>usually have to do the fixing-up.

Perhaps dropping patches with obvious faults with some feedback 
to submitter may reduce your workload ;)  And is slowing down the 
merge a little in these cases such a bad thing if it improves 
patch quality over time?

Grant.
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