From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755877Ab0BKESO (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:18:14 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56867 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754182Ab0BKESN (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:18:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4B738498.5080406@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:16:24 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland McGrath CC: Ingo Molnar , Suresh Siddha , Oleg Nesterov , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , hjl.tools@gmail.com Subject: Re: [patch v2 0/4] updated ptrace/core-dump patches for supporting xstate - V2 References: <20100209201309.902050211@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> <20100210011232.71CA51C5@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20100210072756.GD31351@elte.hu> <20100210185815.4B4F9CC@magilla.sf.frob.com> <4B7368DF.60907@zytor.com> <20100211034553.A657CD14@magilla.sf.frob.com> In-Reply-To: <20100211034553.A657CD14@magilla.sf.frob.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/10/2010 07:45 PM, Roland McGrath wrote: >> We're happy to carry the patches as long as it's okay with you. We were >> mostly wondering if you preferred any other kind of workflow. > > When I write patches myself, I always use git, so it is always easy and > most convenient for me to have my own branches pulled directly just to > save on 'git rebase' churn later. > > As to a regular workflow of using a well-known branch of mine, I think it > makes sense for me to maintain a branch if there is an area where things > are presumptively merged just on my approval and I'm the one who has to be > lobbied to revert them. I have not heretofore acquired the sensation that > this was the case with any given area of code. LOL, okay :) -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.