Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756681AbZJ0TkV (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753186AbZJ0TkU (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:20 -0400 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:42354 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752705AbZJ0TkT (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:19 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Linus Torvalds , Stefan Richter , Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Nicolas Pitre , "Luck, Tony" , Stephen Rothwell , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Jeff Garzik , Robert Richter , Dmitry Torokhov , Jean Delvare , Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [RFC] to rebase or not to rebase on linux-next In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:04 EDT." <1256671624.26028.419.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20091022122042.e535d43c.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20091023112732.GB5886@elte.hu> <4AE19A74.1090709@garzik.org> <20091023123555.GA25366@elte.hu> <57C9024A16AD2D4C97DC78E552063EA3E33D0174@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> <20091023134115.GD27097@elte.hu> <20091023191631.GA1879@elte.hu> <1256326512.26028.34.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20091023205400.GA8356@elte.hu> <20091024080326.GA7461@mit.edu> <4AE2F0F6.30909@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1256671624.26028.419.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1256672350_3649P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:39:10 -0400 Message-ID: <22616.1256672350@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 128.173.14.107 turing-police.cc.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Info: (0) X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=vivi.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020207.4AE74C60.01E8,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2009-07-29 21:33:33, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1165 Lines: 34 --==_Exmh_1256672350_3649P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:04 EDT, Steven Rostedt said: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Don't lie about > > getting an ack that you didn't get before you made that patch public. > > But how do you get your ack without making it public? I'm going to guess that Linus meant "causing the patch to show up in a public git tree" - i.e. shop the patch around on lkml and similar lists a bit and get some acked-by's to attach to it *before* it goes out in a tree that everybody might pull from. --==_Exmh_1256672350_3649P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFK50xecC3lWbTT17ARAhk+AJ4icIIWf85kIc3+uhlBFCILhI1QGQCePBfe FlIFcL6CopHrK7LPYJwwqQE= =zdqE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1256672350_3649P-- -- 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/