Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:18:53 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
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       linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] USB: FHCI: Driver should be responsible for
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:08:45 +0300 Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:59:36AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:13:03PM +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > > Follow these changes for the FHCI driver:
> > 
> > Hm, would it just make more sense to respin the whole driver?  That way
> > it's never in the tree in a "broken" state?
> 
> It's for -mm tree. If I understand -mm workflow correctly, Andrew
> will merge all the fixes into the final patch before sending it to
> you in late -rc0 phase, when various -next git trees (on which this
> driver depend) will be merged into the Linus tree.
>
> Andrew, am I correct?

Yes, that's what I do.

I prefer to see the incremental patches once a patch has had review or
testing, so we can see which bits changed.  But if Greg intends to
merge this driver then he'd probably prefer a fresh new patch,
particularly as a) version 1 was only sent yesterday and b) he hasn't
merged version #1.


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