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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 08:28:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:22 AM, James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, I've rebased the arch/metag tree onto mainline to make all the
> > back-merges unnecessary and applied those simple fixes into "Build
> > infrastructure" and "Various other headers" commits (additionally
> > trivially removing ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS which is also now unnecessary).
> 
> No, this is *exactly* the wrong thing to do.

<snip good practices and musings about maintainer trees>

Hmm, so this comes up almost everytime new maintainers send stuff (and
when seasoned maintainers forget :)), maybe we should hold it down
somewhere in Documentation/ for future reference?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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