Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754420AbYGXUe2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:34:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751663AbYGXUeU (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:34:20 -0400 Received: from server.drzeus.cx ([85.8.24.28]:50573 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751350AbYGXUeT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:34:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:34:12 +0200 From: Pierre Ossman To: Linus Torvalds Cc: pHilipp Zabel , Greg KH , Greg KH , "Theodore Ts'o" , Zwane Mwaikambo , Justin Forbes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wedgwood , Domenico Andreoli , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Randy Dunlap , Willy Tarreau , Chuck Wolber , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Chuck Ebbert , Dave Jones , Jake Edge , Michael Krufky , stable@kernel.org, Rodrigo Rubira Branco Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 44/47] pxamci: fix byte aligned DMA transfers Message-ID: <20080724223412.4ab223b1@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: References: <20080722230208.148102983@mini.kroah.org> <20080722231342.GA8282@suse.de> <20080722231735.GS8282@suse.de> <74d0deb30807230001x176e375cq9a8060c20596f36f@mail.gmail.com> <20080723201258.GA26156@kroah.com> <20080723203250.GA26454@kroah.com> <74d0deb30807240333l565eaf24uf695ce8d01597090@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.13.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="=_freyr.drzeus.cx-10597-1216931657-0001-2" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2363 Lines: 66 This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_freyr.drzeus.cx-10597-1216931657-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:22:56 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: >=20 > Pulling doesn't change the SHA1 ID of a commit, so _if_ it had been stabl= e=20 > in the -mmc tree, it would have had the same commit in the kernel too.=20 > That's very much a design issue in git: the same commit always has the=20 > same ID. _ALWAYS_. >=20 > So the fact that the ID changed implies that something odd happened in th= e=20 > -mmc tree. Most likely a rebase. And again, this implies that somebody=20 > rebased already-public commits, since otherwise nobody would have ever=20 > even seen the original SHA1 ID.=20 Indeed I did. Things got shuffled around a bit when I updated the patch queue with more stuff and the old attempt hadn't gotten merged yet. >=20 > Which is not good behaviour, _exactly_ because it makes it much harder fo= r=20 > people to work together - suddenly a commit that got reported (for=20 > whatever reason: bug-report or 'please backport', it's all the same issue= =20 > in the end) no longer exists. I've always considered my "for-linus" branch to be primarily that, but I guess I can be more careful so that other people can use it as well. Rgds --=20 -- Pierre Ossman WARNING: This correspondence is being monitored by the Swedish government. Make sure your server uses encryption for SMTP traffic and consider using PGP for end-to-end encryption. --=_freyr.drzeus.cx-10597-1216931657-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiI50cACgkQ7b8eESbyJLg/5gCfb3eZqB2BqaLbIPBr515f2xAF Vc8An0aZsmONRRcsswb7EUdsm0xhVZJ0 =S3aQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_freyr.drzeus.cx-10597-1216931657-0001-2-- -- 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/