Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:22:42 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: merge status |
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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.
-- Jens Axboe
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