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SubjectRe: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec
* Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com) wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
> >>Olof's patch is in the linux-release tree, so this brings up a point
> >>regarding merging. If the quick fix is to be replaced by a better fix
> >>later (as in this case) there's some room for merge conflict. Does this
> >>pose a problem for either -mm or Linus' tree?
> >
> >It depends who gets to Linus's tree first. If linux-release merges first,
> >I just revert the temp fix while adding the real fix. But the temp fix
> >should never have gone into Linus's tree in the first place.

Consider it first patch in fixup series ;-)

> >If I merge before linux-release, I guess Linus has some conflict resolving
> >to do when he pulls from linux-release. That's OK for an obvious
> >two-liner, but would get out of control for more substantial things.
> >
> >Neither solution is acceptable, really. I suspect the idea of pulling
> >linux-release into mainline won't work very well, and that making it a
> >backport tree would be more practical.
>
> Maybe you're right, but I tend to think that "quick, get that fix out
> immediately" fixes will appear before more substantial fixes. That is
> certainly the way things have worked up until now.
>
> For the cases that we care about, putting that into linux-release and
> then pulling would seem more appropriate.

Yes, and this case was on the border of a newly existing system.

thanks,
-chris
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