From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM Subarchitecture group maintainership
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:13:46 +0200
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Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
        Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
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On Thursday 26 May 2011, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33:55AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 May 2011, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > I think the question is about the existing -next branches people already
> > > have - should they contain code that hasn't yet gone to you guys?  We're
> > > doing that for audio at the minute (having subtrees in -next directly)
> > > and it's pretty helpful for miniising hassle for the maintainers of the
> > > core tree.
> 
> > We obviously talk about arch/arm/[mach|plat]* stuff, drivers/ sound/
> > etc. should go through the relevant maintainer trees.
> 
> Right, but the question is what to do with the subtrees that are in
> -next currently.  I'm mentioning sound as an example of a tree with
> subtrees in -next directly.

I think all the subarch maintainers should basically stop having their
stuff included directly in linux-next, but instead have it pulled into
our tree, which has one aggregate -next branch that gets included there.

	Arnd
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