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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Namespace file descriptors for 2.6.40
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On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 00:03 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
> > I agree with Linus's notion in this thread though, a core kernel change should
> > generally not worry about hooking up rare-arch system calls (concentrate on the
> > architectures that get tested most) - those are better enabled gradually
> > anyway.
>
> The way I read it he was complaining about my having parisc bits and
> asking for my branch to be merged before the parisc bits had been
> merged. Which I credit as a fair complaint. If I am going to depend on
> other peoples trees I should wait.
>
> At the same time when I am busy looking for every possible source of
> trouble and putting code into net-next to detect pending conflicts,
> and when maintainers complain when I ask for review that my patches
> conflict with their patches. Being a contentious developer I am
> inclined to do something.

Right ... and the problem is that someone has to care, because the
conflict will show up in linux-next. I think Stephen Rothwell would
appreciate us making his life easier rather than leaving it to him to
sort out the problems.

> Now that the reality has sunk in that it means waiting for other peoples
> code to be merged before I request for my changes to be merged I don't
> think I will structure a tree that way again while I remember.

Right. This is quite a common occurrence in SCSI (mostly changes
entangled with block or libata). If you don't feel comfortable running
a postmerge tree, just send me the bits and I'll do it (after all it
works either way around: I can pull in the syscalls and depend on your
tree rather than vice versa).

James




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