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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:35:45 -0600
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com,
       grant.likely@secretlab.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Xilinx: hwicap driver comments
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:42:03 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:08:50 +0100
> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > first of all, I think that the driver should go through lkml before upstream 
> > merge or at least be in -mm for a while (I think this used to be a rule some 
> > time ago), correct me if I'm wrong, but none of it happened.
> 
> Never seen it before in my life.  Can't find any references to it in any of
> the mailing lists.  I ended up googling the changelog text for a whopping
> three hits and it appears that this change went into the powerpc patch
> system (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=16712)
> 
> How it got from there into Linux is also a mystery.  I see a batch of
> powerpc updates just went into mainline but I don't know whose tree was
> pulled - I wasn't copied on any pull request and I can't find one on the
> kernel mailing list.
> 
> Perhaps Paul has just done a stealth merge, but the patch to which you
> refer doesn't have his signoff.  Very confused.

Gah, no.  Don't blame Paul.  It wasn't actually stealth either as it
got posted a few times to the powerpc list.

You can blame me and/or Grant if you'd like.  It's a Virtex specific
driver and I didn't see any problem with it going in through the
powerpc tree.  I'll/we'll do better next time.

> Guys, can we all play too?

Sure.  You could add my tree to -mm if you want.  Though I'd really
rather if we all sync up with Paul sooner so you don't have to track 5
or 6 "powerpc" trees.

josh
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