Re: merge of m68knommu and m68k arch branches?

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Feb 21 2011 - 02:41:30 EST


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 00:53, Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19/02/11 18:39, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 23:12, Greg Ungerer<gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Âwrote:
>>>
>>> On 19/02/11 01:24, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:27, Geert Uytterhoeven<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Âwrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:07, Greg Ungerer<gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Âwrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to put up for discussion a merge of the m68knommu and
>>>>>> m68k arch branches.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Attached is a script and patch that does a kind of brute force
>>>>>> simplistic merge of the directories and files. (Thanks to Stephen King
>>>>>> <sfking@xxxxxxxxx> Â Âfor the initial version of this script, and to
>>>>>> Sam Ravnborg for the m68k includes merge script this was based on).
>>>>>> Nothing outside of the arch/m68k and arch/m68knommu directories is
>>>>>> touched, and in the end there is no more arch/m68knommu. To apply you
>>>>>> simply run the script from the top of a current kernel git tree (I
>>>>>> used
>>>>>> 2.6.38-rc5 for testing) and then apply the patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Building...
>>>>
>>>> Builds fine (all test configs), runs on ARAnyM.
>>>>
>>>> Let's go ahead?
>>>
>>> What sort of timing do you think makes sense?
>>> Is for 2.6.39 too soon?
>>
>> Personally, I don't mind. 2.6.39 is OK for me. I guess the safest way
>> is to let Linus
>> execute the script? Before or after the merge window?
>
> Well I was going to construct the merge as a single git commit
> (which is equivalent to running this script and applying the patch).
> Linus would then just pull this.
>
> The best timing for me is near the end of the merge window.
> That way we can both get in any other changes first.

Sounds like a plan, OK!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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