Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Daniel,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:02 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 12:49 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 12:44 -0800, Dima Zavin wrote:
>> > > Really though? Let's look at one of them:
>> > >       2 Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >       6 Brian Swetland <swetland@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >      14 Dima Zavin <dima@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >       2 Haley Teng <Haley_Teng@xxxxxxx>
>> > >       1 Iliyan Malchev <malchev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >       5 Mike Chan <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > I'll add this list into the commit text ..
>>
>> I think it'd be better if you pull them into a
>> git repository, then use either:
>>       git format-patch
>>       git send-email
>> or
>>       git request-pull
>>
>> That way no author history is lost.
>
> The history isn't upstreamable ..

Why is that? I don't see any technical problem of upstreaming the
original patches even if they don't compile (as long as they're not
included in Makefiles or Kconfig files). There's no need to hide the
real history even if it looks ugly...

                         Pekka
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