Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:35:45 -0600 | From | Josh Boyer <> | Subject | Re: Xilinx: hwicap driver comments |
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:42:03 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:08:50 +0100 > Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote: > > > first of all, I think that the driver should go through lkml before upstream > > merge or at least be in -mm for a while (I think this used to be a rule some > > time ago), correct me if I'm wrong, but none of it happened. > > Never seen it before in my life. Can't find any references to it in any of > the mailing lists. I ended up googling the changelog text for a whopping > three hits and it appears that this change went into the powerpc patch > system (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=16712) > > How it got from there into Linux is also a mystery. I see a batch of > powerpc updates just went into mainline but I don't know whose tree was > pulled - I wasn't copied on any pull request and I can't find one on the > kernel mailing list. > > Perhaps Paul has just done a stealth merge, but the patch to which you > refer doesn't have his signoff. Very confused.
Gah, no. Don't blame Paul. It wasn't actually stealth either as it got posted a few times to the powerpc list.
You can blame me and/or Grant if you'd like. It's a Virtex specific driver and I didn't see any problem with it going in through the powerpc tree. I'll/we'll do better next time.
> Guys, can we all play too?
Sure. You could add my tree to -mm if you want. Though I'd really rather if we all sync up with Paul sooner so you don't have to track 5 or 6 "powerpc" trees.
josh
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