From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945961AbXBIAzr (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:55:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945960AbXBIAzr (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:55:47 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:43769 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945961AbXBIAzq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:55:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17867.50828.463593.134082@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:55:40 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Andrew Morton Cc: Kyle McMartin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 In-Reply-To: <20070208155300.9347e0cb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070208150710.1324f6b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070208233449.GC18899@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> <20070208155300.9347e0cb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > Once a subsystem has a subsystem tree (git or quilt) I basically never > merge anything which belongs to that tree. It's always > > originator->mm->subsystemtree->Linus > > If the subsystem tree maintainer wants to tell me "I can't be bothered > setting up a git pull for that, please merge it for me" then that's fine. > > But unless I'm told that, or unless the maintainer is vacationing or totally > asleep or unless the fix has some sufficiently high obviousness*importance product, > I'll just keep buffering it up. What about the sort of thing that crosses all archs? For example, the local_t changes? Particularly in the case where the change has to be made in generic code and in all archs at the same time, it makes sense to me for you to send the whole batch to Linus at the same time, rather than individual arch maintainers all sending their bit at varying times. Paul.