Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764096AbYBMCUR (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:20:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756103AbYBMCTm (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:19:42 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52191 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755439AbYBMCTl (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:19:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:20:12 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080212.182012.153642549.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, bfields@fieldses.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080212180613.a1a07264.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080212.173817.111913348.davem@davemloft.net> <20080212180613.a1a07264.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 18 From: Andrew Morton Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:06:13 -0800 > So perhaps a better workflow would be keep the linux-next trees all > messy, and then each developer can consolidate, rebase, join and > drop things prior to sending their individual trees to Linus. We could do that, but I believe Linus's main point is that if we go and change the trees then in the end we're merging in something different than what was actually tested, namely all the original trees as merged into linux-next. And I kind of agree with that. -- 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/