Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752711Ab1CKDeL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:34:11 -0500 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:41906 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751374Ab1CKDeJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:34:09 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=+c36koQ5Dcj/1qolKHjtkYAGXvrVJRRiKMp+84F5sLg= c=1 sm=0 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=OPBmh+XkhLl+Enan7BmTLg==:17 a=JajUpojGUCNJNEghbWQA:9 a=RM6LLnsM8Lbp_-HS0mWBTzSPPpsA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=OPBmh+XkhLl+Enan7BmTLg==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 67.242.120.143 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:34:06 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking Message-ID: <20110311033406.GA11004@home.goodmis.org> References: <20110310.155556.48513201.davem@davemloft.net> <20110310.163434.260095615.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 24 On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:51:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The reasons can be any of: > > - "I don't want to get too far away from upstream". This is very > understandable, but I have asked people to please _not_ merge "random > trees of the day". Please use major releases for this (or, if worst > comes to worst, -rc releases) rather than just do something else. > What are you throughts on starting work from a tree. Most of my work is usually based off of some branch in tip, but sometimes when I'm pulling in patches that are not really related to anything, I just simply grab whatever the latest Linus branch is and start from there. Is it preferable to instead start from one of the official releases? -- Steve -- 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/