Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764967AbYBLVBP (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:01:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762847AbYBLVAv (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:51 -0500 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:33710 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760092AbYBLVAt (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:49 -0500 Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) From: James Bottomley To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , David Miller , Arjan van de Ven , Greg KH , sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: <20080211203146.3d28d1a0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080212044314.GA4888@kroah.com> <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080211.221126.230471463.davem@davemloft.net> <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <1202838082.3137.54.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202840682.3137.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:43 -0600 Message-Id: <1202850043.3137.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1035 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 21:18 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > Rebases *do*not*work* (and fundamentally cannot work) in a > > > distributed environment. > > Hm ... I think net is a counter example to this. Rebases certainly work > > for them. The issue, I thought, was around the policy of rebasing and > > how often. > > Hmm ... as far as I can see, Jeff and John (i.e. net tree downstreams) are > pretty loudly unhappy with Dave rebasing too often, right? That's true ... but irrelevant to the argument of whether rebasing does or doesn't work. I don't think anyone's arguing that rebasing doesn't cause real problems to downstream users ... when I was based on block for the scsi post merge tree, I was just such a user ... James -- 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/