Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261267AbUJYWFL (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:05:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262028AbUJYWEy (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:04:54 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:16551 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261267AbUJYWBm (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:01:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:05:06 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jeff Garzik Cc: smurf@smurf.noris.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow Message-Id: <20041025150506.258edc58.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <417D203B.4030508@pobox.com> References: <41752E53.8060103@pobox.com> <20041019153126.GG18939@work.bitmover.com> <41753B99.5090003@pobox.com> <4d8e3fd304101914332979f86a@mail.gmail.com> <20041019213803.GA6994@havoc.gtf.org> <4d8e3fd3041019145469f03527@mail.gmail.com> <20041019232710.GA10841@kroah.com> <417D203B.4030508@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-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 X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1069 Lines: 30 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Andrew also does things like > > > > bk-netdev.patch > > e1000-module_param-fix.patch > > ne2k-pci-pci-build-fix.patch > > r8169-module_param-fix.patch > > > > which my mind translates as "there's something stupid, incomplete or > > outdated in the bk-netdev tree", or "that tree's maintainer should apply > > these patches. Now." (Ideally, of course, my import script should do the > > same thing.) > > Wrong on all counts. "wrong" became "right". Those patches need to be applied now. I'll resend them. But Matthias has described the algorithm correctly: I try to keep "fixups" as close as possible to the patches which they fix. I also try to keep patches in when-to-go-to-linus order, but that's much harder to achieve, for various reasons. - 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/