From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>, Arnd <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] late arch/metag fixes for v3.9-rc1
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 11:06:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGDaZ_pLi3EkeDbfYyh9JXCuWnbyRZdh2OMn6ipzDbM9ETWthg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130302181025.GA15498@pd.tnic>
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> 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?
Hear hear!
Come to think of it given how often Linus has bitched about rebasing
and back merging I'm surprised it's not already mentioned.
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> Boris.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-02 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-01 16:55 [GIT PULL] late arch/metag fixes for v3.9-rc1 James Hogan
2013-03-01 18:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-01 18:54 ` James Hogan
2013-03-02 10:22 ` James Hogan
2013-03-02 15:48 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-03-02 16:22 ` James Hogan
2013-03-03 2:11 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-03-02 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-02 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-02 18:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-02 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-02 19:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-02 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-02 19:06 ` Raymond Jennings [this message]
2013-03-02 19:05 ` James Hogan
2013-03-02 21:40 ` James Hogan
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