From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:05:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([62.254.210.129]:47624 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133424AbWAKTEo (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:04:44 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0BJ7j9A025388; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:07:46 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k0BJ7hEa025381; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:07:43 GMT Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:07:43 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Ivan Korzakow Cc: "P. Christeas" , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: why the early_initcall(au1x00_setup) do not work? Message-ID: <20060111190743.GE4403@linux-mips.org> References: <50c9a2250601082159p238cacd6r930709da9305479e@mail.gmail.com> <200601101757.45297.p_christ@hol.gr> <200601101857.26978.p_christ@hol.gr> <20060110215322.GA27577@linux-mips.org> <20060111112001.GA4403@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 9861 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:07:25PM +0100, Ivan Korzakow wrote: > I know that but you miss my point. GIT is a tool to ease work on linux > kernel, but the way you use it makes harder life of users of your > tree. For example your tree contains more than 350 000 objects ! That > makes a lot of git commands running slow... Linus promised too look into that. He has too - it's what his tree would be facing in the not too distant future, otherwise. > Let's say I'm developing a net drivers on ARM platform. I'm actually > do not care about ARM development, but I do care about net tree. To do > that, I just need to clone net tree because I know that ARM should be > OK with this tree. What about MIPS ? > > I'm just wondering why not asking to Linus to pull from your tree like > every others maintainers do ? Like most other developers I create throw-away trees for that purpose, see the upstream-linus tree. Due to the way the Linux release process is working anything else is unrealistic. Ralf