Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761801AbZFLKkZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:40:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756391AbZFLKkN (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:40:13 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:57533 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755275AbZFLKkM (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:40:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:40:55 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Pavel Machek Cc: Brian Swetland , Nicolas Pitre , Ryan Mallon , Russell King - ARM Linux , Tony Lindgren , David Miller , lkml , linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, san@android.com, rlove@google.com Subject: Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support Message-ID: <20090612114055.3579ad92@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090612103521.GD18682@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20090611132134.GA11199@atomide.com> <20090611133736.GP795@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20090611140038.GB11199@atomide.com> <20090611140624.GS795@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <4A3175AC.9070100@bluewatersys.com> <4A31AECA.6070303@bluewatersys.com> <20090612103521.GD18682@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) 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: 814 Lines: 18 O> > - is it essential to completely flatten down to single patches for new > > drivers? We do have history including contributions from Qualcomm, > > HTC, etc, which would be nice to preserve in some cases, but if that's > > impractical, we can do a complete rebase and flatten on top of tip of > > tree. > > I guess preserving history is not top priority. Preserving the history is very important if it contains things like authorship data. If you are feeding a git tree into the kernel then its probably best to keep it in that format all the way to Linus. Alan -- 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/