Re: Adrian Bunk is now taking over the 2.6.16-stable branch

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:18:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:00:49AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:45:53PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > In-Reply-To: <20060808195509.GR3691@stusta.de>
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:55:10 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > > > I believe I had 'fix pdflush after suspend' queued in Greg's tree. Is
> > > > > > > it still queued or should I resend?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Is this "pdflush: handle resume wakeups"?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes. Do you have it somewhere or should I dig it up?
> > > > 
> > > > I've applied it.
> > > 
> > > Umm, is there some place we can check to see what you've applied?
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git
> 
> No, I would not use the main git tree to queue patches up.  What happens
> when you want to rip the middle one out because in review it turns out
> that it is incorrect?

  git-revert

> Please use a quilt tree of patches instead, and then only commit the
> patches when you do a release.  It's much simpler that way.

The way I'm doing it it's more the way the 2.4 and 2.6 trees work than 
how the -stable tree works.

I prefer it the way I'm doing it.

If it turns out I was wrong I can always switch to a quilt tree.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

cu
Adrian

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