Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

[Jeff Garzik]

Greg KH wrote:
> A lot of time that already happens today, between the different
> subsystem maintainers.  We routinely pass PCI and driver core changes
> through the network and scsi and ata trees in order to handle merge
> issues properly.  This already happened in a few places in the
> 2.6.25-rc1 merge cycle.


Yep.  I do that with the powerpc tree sometimes, too:  I'll ACK a 
drivers/net change that is obviously PPC-specific, and that drivers/net 
change will go in via paulus.

Like you said, it's done on a per-patch not git tree basis at the moment.

That sort of cooperation has become common: in areas of shared 
responsibility, request an ack, and then the "most obvious" person 
(generally the one with most merge dependencies) merges that 
shared-responsibility change along with some other changes specific to 
their own tree.

	Jeff



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