2008-10-22 04:33:50

by Phillip Lougher

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Subject: Sending patches, against linux-next.git, linux-2.6.git or what?

Hi,

I'm about to send another respin of the Squashfs patches. Do I base
them against linux-next.git, linux-2.6.git or what? I thought they
should be against linux-next, but I've already got one complaint. So,
I'm confused, what tree should new patches be based off?

Any advice would be useful.

Thanks

Phillip


2008-10-22 06:18:38

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: Sending patches, against linux-next.git, linux-2.6.git or what?

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:33:52 +0100 Phillip Lougher <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm about to send another respin of the Squashfs patches. Do I base
> them against linux-next.git, linux-2.6.git or what? I thought they
> should be against linux-next, but I've already got one complaint. So,
> I'm confused, what tree should new patches be based off?
>

If they're being released for people to test and play with, I'd make
them aginst mainline or 2.6.27.

If they're being released for review-and-merge then yes, linux-next
would be better, but that's a fairly minor merging matter. A much bigger
task is getting them reviewed and generally getting a bit of
momentum/interest/enthusiasm/etc.

2008-10-22 07:30:43

by Stephen Rothwell

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Subject: Re: Sending patches, against linux-next.git, linux-2.6.git or what?

Hi Phillip,

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:33:52 +0100 Phillip Lougher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm about to send another respin of the Squashfs patches. Do I base
> them against linux-next.git, linux-2.6.git or what? I thought they
> should be against linux-next, but I've already got one complaint. So,
> I'm confused, what tree should new patches be based off?

Please base your patches on Linus' current git tree. linux-next is too
much of a moving target.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell [email protected]
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/


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2008-10-22 15:38:46

by Jörn Engel

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Subject: Re: Sending patches, against linux-next.git, linux-2.6.git or what?

On Tue, 21 October 2008 23:17:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> A much bigger
> task is getting them reviewed and generally getting a bit of
> momentum/interest/enthusiasm/etc.

How much of that is needed? Squashfs is very widely used and the
current work is _much_ better than it used to be. There is some work
remaining to be done, but the current format appears sane.

I'd vote to merge this fairly soon.

Jörn

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