Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756529AbXJBLFw (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:05:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753436AbXJBLFo (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:05:44 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:44341 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753081AbXJBLFn (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:05:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:05:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andi Kleen cc: Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Greg KH , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Mailing List , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.. In-Reply-To: <200710021248.06050.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <200710021121.36443.ak@suse.de> <47021F83.4070609@garzik.org> <200710021248.06050.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1778 Lines: 45 On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 12:37:55 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:17:02 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > >>> This is also a good time to warn about the fact that we're doing the x86 > > >>> merge very soon (as in the next day or two) after 2.6.23 is out, so if you > > >>> have pending patches for the next series that touch arch/i386 or x86-64, > > >>> you should get in touch with Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar, who are the > > >>> keepers of the merge scripts, and will help you prepare.. > > > > > > > > > Yes I have ~100 patches for arch/x86_64, arch/i386 > > > > > > Should I just drop them? > > > > Why don't you work with Thomas and Ingo to make sure everything is in > > sync and prepped for 2.6.24? > > The easiest way to do that would be to first merge all the queued and > collected patches from the last months. Once they are in people > can then create whatever mess they like. > > The other way round (adapting 100+ patches to a possibly completely > different tree) will be a huge amount of work which I am > frankly not very motivated to do because I think it's quite unnecessary. > > I would probably just push the work back to all the patch submitters -- that is > what I meant with dropping the patches. I picked up your queue at ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt-current/current.tar.gz and converted it with the fixup script to: http://www.tglx.de/~tglx/patches-ak.tar.bz2 Hope that helps, tglx - 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/