Re: merge status

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 01:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Most of the other git-tree maintainers don't bother with any of that. 
> acpi, agp, alsa, arm, ...  xfs.  The trees which have special -mm branches
> are just drm, ieee1394, jfs, mips and netdev.

jfs doesn't really maintain a separate -mm branch.  I set up the tree to
be flexible if I ever had a reason to hold something back from the Linus
tree, but in reality, -mm is equal to HEAD, and the -linus branch is
usually the same when I ask for it to be pulled.

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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