Re: [GIT PULL] late arch/metag fixes for v3.9-rc1

[Raymond Jennings]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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