Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:03:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:03:00 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:29701 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:02:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? To: esr@thyrsus.com Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:03:06 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan), willy@ldl.fc.hp.com (Matthew Wilcox), james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu (james rich), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org In-Reply-To: <20010420095302.A5674@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Apr 20, 2001 09:53:02 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > OK, so maybe I'm being stupid. But the implication of this talk of separate > port trees and architecture merges is that these guys periodically send big > resync patches to you and Linus. > > If that's not what's going on, what is? People send batches of small fixes to Linus or to me. So for example the S/390 folks send me things like 'fix the mm layer to match the changes in 2.4.3' and 'Update the DASD storage driver'. Each of which fixes one thing or one set of things and is easy to check on its own - 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/