Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans
From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Sep 22 2006 - 13:10:40 EST
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:29:21PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> NOTE: Your mailer generates bogus Mail-Followup-To headers, and you
> snipped rmk from the To/CC.
Hmm, curious. I'll file a bug.
> > Has Andrew commented on why this is proving to be more of a problem?
> > I've done regular rebases of cpufreq/agpgart (admittedly, they don't
> > reject hardly ever unless Len has ACPI bits touching cpufreq) without
> > causing too much headache.
>
> Rebasing _inevitably_ causes more headaches than a simple tree update,
> for any downstream consumer of your tree(s). It is best to avoid wanton
> rebasing.
Sorry, terminology confusion. I rarely throw away a tree and start afresh,
I meant of course just updating to linus' latest. This may explain the
my lack of understanding over Russell's issues.
Dave
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