Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:57:21 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/15] rcu: Permit RCU_NONIDLE() to be used from interrupt context |
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:18:40AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > [ Added Linus to verify what I'm talking about ] > > On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 08:03 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Doesn't Fengguang pull branches individually? And won't that mean > > that as soon as I push my export-removal commit, that he will see > > build failures? > > > > Or are you suggesting that we both send both commits? > > No, what I could do is to push the branch out to my repository on > kernel.org (I'm currently running it under my test suite), and then both > you and Ingo can pull from it. > > It is based off of v3.6-rc5 and only has Josh's change in it. This way, > when Ingo pulls it into the perf/core branch, I can work against that, > and you could either pull the same branch directly from me (as you need > it to work too), or you could have Ingo pull it into the rcu branches in > tip, and you could work against that. > > The trick is that the branch I push is against Linus's tree (something > that we all should be working against) and contains only the one change. > Then everyone that needs this change can just pull it directly, and git > will sort it all out without any conflicts. This is the method that > Linus was talking about at Kernel Summit.
Works for me!
Thanx, Paul
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