From: arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:10:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCHv1 0/6] rtc: rtc-isl12057: fixes and alarm support In-Reply-To: <20141126115345.a3ef26c9fef0c388cbb6e6ee@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:53:45 -0800") References: <874mtlyflf.fsf@natisbad.org> <54762096.7040200@kleine-koenig.org> <87y4qxwykq.fsf@natisbad.org> <20141126115345.a3ef26c9fef0c388cbb6e6ee@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: <87egsp205m.fsf@natisbad.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Andrew, Andrew Morton writes: >> > akpm already applied the series, doesn't he? >> >> I am not really familiar w/ -mm tree workflow. It was not clear to me >> whether it was sitting in -mm tree waiting for reviewed-by and >> acked-by. > > -mm is a collection of several hundred trees (most of which are empty > at a particular time). The workflow depends on which tree we're > talking about! > > For RTC patches I attempt to review them myself but I'm by no means an > expert on RTC, so I'm careful to cc various people who I think might > help with review and test. Often people do this. Generally when they > don't, the patches are sufficiently obvious for me to proceed under my > own steam. If something breaks (this is rare), the number of people > who are affected is usually quite small and they tend to be system > developers who can fix it up for us anyway. Thanks for the explanation. Cheers, a+