Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/8] dt-bindings: leds: register-bit-led: Add active-low property

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Fri Feb 24 2023 - 03:42:42 EST


On 23/02/2023 21:59, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 5:48 PM Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thursday 23 February 2023 14:22:52 Lee Jones wrote:
>>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2022, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Allow to define inverted logic (0 - enable LED, 1 - disable LED) via
>>>>> active-low property.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/register-bit-led.yaml | 5 +++++
>>>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> Needs a DT Ack (now Cc:ed)
>>>
>>> I can't do anything with this set until we have a DT Ack.
>>>
>>> If you don't receive one soon, I'd suggest resending the set again with
>>> all of the DT people on Cc that it should have been sent to in the first
>>> place.
>>
>> (Re)Sending one email multiple times is against email etiquette,
>> moreover it is spam technique and reason for marking sender on the
>> blacklist.
>
> No problem on the kernel mailing lists actually, we love to mail
> bomb each other here. Yeah maybe we are a bit weird :/
>
>> Moreover I have already sent it more than one time. DT people are known
>> to not respond to patches and pull requests and I have no motivation to
>> send reminder emails for them for more than half of year.

Is this a joke? You got here response within one day!

Sent: 18th of August
Reviewed-by: 19th of August

https://lore.kernel.org/all/f635d5a7-6817-cd62-e395-63e346775716@xxxxxxxxxx/

You ignored the tag and then ignored the process and not Cc'ed us. Yet
you complain that someone did not respond to your emails. Really?


>>
>> So I would suggest to not send emails to people who just do not want to
>> receive or read emails. It is logical reaction.
>>
>> This patch is here for more than 6 months, so I do not see reason why to
>> wait for Godot. Rather move forward than stepping at the same position.
>
> I understand that it is annoying.
>
> In my experience Krzysztof and Rob (now added on To) are usually
> quite responsive and helpful, so something must have made them
> miss it I think.
>
> As subsystem maintainer, if the DT reviewers haven't said anything
> in ~2 weeks I tend to sanity check the binding as best I can and then
> merge it. The bigger and more complex it is the more hesitant I get to
> do this...

Yeah... this patch was never sent to us, thus regardless how hard we
work, it would be quite difficult to answer emails which we never received.

Best regards,
Krzysztof