Re: merge status

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Nov 10 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  It's more of a "I don't feel like spending 1-2 hours making and testing
> >  a -mm version"
> 
> There shouldn't be a need for special -m version of patches.  Very usually
> the diff-against-linus can be made to work quite easily.  Sufficiently
> easily that I resync with all the git trees a couple of times a day.

Often the patch itself may not take too much work, but you still need to
set up a -mm test directory, compile, boot, and test the stuff.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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