Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933512AbYBGWAk (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:00:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760163AbYBGWAb (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:00:31 -0500 Received: from mail-dub.bigfish.com ([213.199.154.10]:11114 "EHLO mail4-dub-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759694AbYBGWAa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:00:30 -0500 X-BigFish: VP X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 149.199.60.83;Service: EHS X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Xilinx: hwicap driver comments Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:00:22 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20080207135341.04e5652a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Xilinx: hwicap driver comments Thread-Index: Achp0/LQQYyEJJyoQmOBrpA9mpTbNwAAES6g References: <47AB6552.7040503@gmail.com><20080207124203.147ce300.akpm@linux-foundation.org><20080207132106.ec5ebf1d.akpm@linux-foundation.org><20080207213512.36FA991807D@mail185-dub.bigfish.com> <20080207135341.04e5652a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> From: "Stephen Neuendorffer" To: "Andrew Morton" Cc: , , , , , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2008 22:00:22.0798 (UTC) FILETIME=[D63722E0:01C869D4] Message-Id: <20080207220024.C172B1C38015@mail4-dub.bigfish.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1583 Lines: 49 > > I'm rather new to all this and still (to some extent) trying to figure > > out what is expected. > > We're all still trying to figure it out, really. We've gone and made it > awfully easy to get code into the kernel nowadays. Perhaps too easy. I'm > presently having a little campaign of watching what's going on a bit more > closely, and ecouraging people to make it easier for others to see what's > going on, should they choose to do so. > > I'm hoping that by the time we're developing 2.6.26 there will be a unified > git tree (aka linux-next) (basically all the git and quilt trees from -mm) > for people to look at and play with. That'll improve our pre-merge test > coverage, but won't do much to improve review. And it won't do anything to > improve our post-merge bugfixing. All of them are good, but I trust testing and sparse more than review.. :) > > Maybe what is needed is git pull --ack? > > I'm also hoping/expecting/planning that if someone tries to merge a patch > into mainline, and that patch hasn't been in linux-next for "long enough", > flags will wave and lights will flash and we can get to take a closer look > at why it was so late and whether it's OK. Hmm... what if git told you what time the original git commit happened? That can't be that hard to add (if it's not already there!) Steve -- 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/