Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm: vt8500: Add support for WondermediaWM8750/WM8850

From: Tony Prisk
Date: Thu Jan 10 2013 - 13:32:03 EST


On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 10:21 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 10 January 2013, Tony Prisk wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 21:27 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >
> > > > Should patches in pull-requests have Ack'd lines already?
> >
> > This is what I thought - and the reason I haven't sent a pull-request
> > for the patch's - I haven't had any Ack's :)
> >
>
> Sorry, I think I misunderstood the question then. I meant that if
> you received an Acked-by statement, it should be part of the
> changeset comment by the time you send a pull request.
>
> There is also the rule that patches need to be reviewed on the
> mailing list before you submit them for inclusion. Like all
> rules, this can be bent a little for patches that are obvious
> correct bug fixes, especially when you are the platform
> maintainer. What you can do here is send the patches out to the
> mailing list without any additional Acks and send the pull
> request as the [PATCH 0/X] mail. We can then look at the
> patches if necessary or just pull in the branch straight away.
>
> Arnd
>
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All makes sense now - thanks.

Regards
Tony P

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