Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:42:37 -0700 |
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> That's why on occasions we do transgress the established process to > accommodate such changes. Imagine just for a moment the patch that > modified the interrupt callback prototype to remove the useless pt_regs > argument. Obviously, it had to be done atomically to the _whole_ tree, > and it was agreed that this patch was to be applied at the end of the > merge window. But no one expected a single minute sending a CC to _all_ > the driver authors.
I don't actually know which patch your talking about, but it sounds pretty simple.. I'm not really addressing really simple fixes, even tho changing a single parameter on a function could be done broken up depending on what it is.
Daniel
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