From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F974EB1 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from heliosphere.sirena.org.uk (heliosphere.sirena.org.uk [172.104.155.198]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C28838D for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:12:01 -0700 From: Mark Brown To: "Martin K. Petersen" Message-ID: <20180918161200.GL2471@sirena.org.uk> References: <1536142432.8121.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20180905113715.GJ9781@sirena.org.uk> <20180905150315.GA10819@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180905115008.22e3d21f@gandalf.local.home> <20180905162007.GO4225@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1536165914.3627.17.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1536176428.3627.28.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Bzq2cJcN05fcPrs+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: James Bottomley , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --Bzq2cJcN05fcPrs+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 09:43:08AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > 1. I could just always revert instead of dropping the patches. The > downside is that we end up with a pretty messy history because, as I > pointed out above, it's usually a matter of dropping tens of patches > at a time and not reverting a single offending commit. In addition, > having a messy history makes it harder on distro kernel people to > track driver updates. I used to deal with this by using topic branches heavily and making my -next be an automated merge of those branches, if something went badly I could just throw away the branch. I stopped for a while because Linus didn't like the number of branches I was creating, though it wasn't a problem with the approach in general. --Bzq2cJcN05fcPrs+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAluhI9AACgkQJNaLcl1U h9BAuAf/T5AvU3MTxylzxCW4gyqJWpoNxmxigX0NXrroitENUHdTwi5sMrsU/enj +CwMHZkC5uZJhDJGWp2X+FdcLM7EDiQ4fureXIn+x54by0Aaihfxq8BczUsOlncF h6QvwpAKH+hc08ageOU9acs0fhiOya99DMs6YnEjB4vGmnpGIsIMM7ZKnu3OJznv yfTe3Lfv4VZnYFwOqSLpbK37aMjnv48nKQeGrpv7PoQjNo5912UeU942AfKZ+AGd 71FkP+A28PzIqLhJheeHhqgRSa97IRwxdDLJ1MoVU129R7LYlyOlHgdxKtStugy2 C7/+6zwslpXQIVdOD2+QaJGUWfaTwA== =Sykr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Bzq2cJcN05fcPrs+--