Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

From: Russell King
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 04:55:02 EST


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:05:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042 fix.
>
> Then when the authors of those patches go to submit the fix to Linus,
> they can revert them, or bk can handle the merge properly :)

How about having two BK trees - one containing "fixes for Linus" and
the other "fixes not for Linus but we really need" ? The "sucker
tree" then becomes the two merged together.

This way, Linus would never see the "fixes not for Linus" at all.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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