Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree

From: David Brown
Date: Wed Feb 02 2011 - 17:46:46 EST


On Wed, Feb 02 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> The actual problem here is that some people, notably the msm folks, are
> bypassing the maintainer hierarchy and going straight to Linus for their
> pull requests instead of asking RMK to pull. We once debated this at
> some point and it was agreed that completely independent SOC specific
> code with no dependencies on the common ARM code _could_ go straight to
> Linus directly if they crave for it. But in this case:
>
> 1) the conflict is obviously simple
>
> 2) the conflict resolution is just as obvious
>
> 3) and Stephen is able and willing to carry this conflict resolution for
> the foreseeable future until this all gets merged in mainline.
>
> So... WTF is the actual problem here?

I hadn't really brought this up as a problem, but was mostly wondering
if it was ok to just have Stephen carry the conflict resolution until
the next merge window. The rest of the comments came from Greg.

David

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