Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756159Ab0HaXZK (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:25:10 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:41355 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721Ab0HaXZJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:25:09 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,301,1280732400"; d="scan'208";a="833679167" From: "Luck, Tony" To: Steven Rostedt , "paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , James Bottomley , "ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Joe Perches , "mingo@elte.hu" Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:25:06 -0700 Subject: RE: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list Thread-Topic: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list Thread-Index: ActJYtNnDxi9K3zoRMKuTUylIsTc4gAAGaPw Message-ID: <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D53015D9B2445@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20100826154537.GA4874@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1282837904.1875.64.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20100826161451.GB2367@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1282839933.8133.11.camel@mulgrave.site> <20100826092923.4bdbea69.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20100826093838.74ab9958@infradead.org> <1283275388.1377.216.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20100831230213.GG2421@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1283296622.1377.765.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1283296622.1377.765.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 16 >Then, the list is maintained outside of mainline (in the subsystem git >tree) and will automatically update mainline in the next merge window >when the tree is pulled. But this would mean that the version of the todo list in Linus' tree is usually a release (3 months) out of date. It would be a good idea for a list maintained this way to include instructions on how to find the current version, lest some unsuspecting person waste time working on items that are already fixed and waiting for the next merge. -Tony -- 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/