Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:30:55 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: merge status |
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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 10 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > > It's more of a "I don't feel like spending 1-2 hours making and testing > > > a -mm version" > > > > There shouldn't be a need for special -m version of patches. Very usually > > the diff-against-linus can be made to work quite easily. Sufficiently > > easily that I resync with all the git trees a couple of times a day. > > Often the patch itself may not take too much work, but you still need to > set up a -mm test directory, compile, boot, and test the stuff.
Most of the other git-tree maintainers don't bother with any of that. acpi, agp, alsa, arm, ... xfs. The trees which have special -mm branches are just drm, ieee1394, jfs, mips and netdev.
Where it all comes unstuck at present is if a maintainer has multiple branches, and some of those branches contains diffs which are in other branches. If that happens, the diffs I generate throw huge rejects. But even then, if one branch is a strict superset of another, I can just pull the superset one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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