Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:14:05 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) |
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > We need to ask Linus to promise that he will pull the stable branch from > linux-next first in the merge window. For that to happen, I would expect > that Linus would also review and sign off (or ack) these commits to the > linux-next tree.
Changing the commits in git in anyway changes their ID, which has the same effects as a rebase.
With this idea, Linus only has two choices:
1. pull the entire set of linux-next changes whether he likes them or not, because he's going to get them either from the linux-next tree or someone elses tree which is based upon that.
2. don't pull the changes, nor anyone elses tree if he hates the changes in linux-next.
So really, Linus needs to ack the changes _before_ they go into linux-next.
-- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of:
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