Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752620Ab3IJWoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:44:04 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40199 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751420Ab3IJWoB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:44:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:44:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dave Chinner , Al Viro Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with Linus' tree Message-Id: <20130910154400.75bb3328fbb9eaa937715652@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20130910143807.4c32d548e08d2184061f52cb@canb.auug.org.au> <20130910152753.662599171456233c5f91edb4@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 686 Lines: 14 On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:35:04 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I'd (once again) suggest you base your pile of patches on the > previous stable kernel, and that linux-next take it *first* rather > than take it last. That's what we're now doing. But this particular patchset was different because it's changing multiple subsystems, several of which are concurrently being changed in an uncoordinated fashion. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/