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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:35:11 -0500
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:18:19 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:34:47PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:45:55 +0100
> > > "d.c" <aradorlinux@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 2) And more important, *nobody* works against "linus' bk head".
> > >
> > > I do, %100 exclusively, for all the networking and sparc
> > > development.
> > >
> > > I never work against the -mm tree.
> >
> > Dito.  All my kernel development happens against Linus' bk head and I
> > almost never work against -mm tree.
> 
> Same here, I work on Linus's bk head and all the changes go to -mm for
> testing first, then to Linus for inclusion.
> 

I guess there is a perception that developers/maintainers are working
against -mm because all maintainers trees are automatically pulled by
Andrew. And when someone doing stuff on somewhat regular basis he/she
tends to do it against maintainer's tree thus making patches suitable
for -mm as well.
 
-- 
Dmitry
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