Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Sep 2005 13:06:32 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.13-mm1 |
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:34:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > it seems you dropped > > > schedule-obsolete-oss-drivers-for-removal-version-2.patch, but there's > > > zero mentioning of this dropping in the changelog of 2.6.13-mm1. > > > > > > Can you explain why you did silently drop it? > > > > It spat rejects and when I looked at the putative removal date I just > > didn't believe it anyway. Send a rediffed one if you like, but > > October 2005 is unrealistic. > > That the date is no longer realistic is clear. What disappoints me is > that you didn't mention in the changelog of 2.6.13-mm1 where I'd have > noticed it.
Sometimes I can't be bothered getting into email threads over relatively unimportant stuff. Usually it's related to the number of bugs we have.
> It semms I need my own bookkeeping of patches I sent that are in -mm to > notice when they get lost.
This is called "quilt".
> The only positive side effect of this is that > I can use this to push you harder to forward some patches of me to Linus > that stay unforwarded in -mm for several months...
A single release cycle is 2-3 months.
I'll probably be dropping some of the patches which unexport symbols, btw. ANy ones which aren't really, really obvious. We have a process for this.
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