Re: merge status

From: Dave Kleikamp (shaggy_at_austin.ibm.com)
Date: 11/10/05

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    To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:22:16 -0600

    On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 01:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
    > >
    > > 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.
    >
    > Most of the other git-tree maintainers don't bother with any of that.
    > acpi, agp, alsa, arm, ... xfs. The trees which have special -mm branches
    > are just drm, ieee1394, jfs, mips and netdev.

    jfs doesn't really maintain a separate -mm branch. I set up the tree to
    be flexible if I ever had a reason to hold something back from the Linus
    tree, but in reality, -mm is equal to HEAD, and the -linus branch is
    usually the same when I ask for it to be pulled. 

    -- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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