From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:16:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove BKL from PCI syscalls Message-Id: <20070711001614.GT9704@parisc-linux.org> List-Id: References: <20070710165532.GP9704@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20070710165532.GP9704@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:49:36PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:42:18PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I believe my patch to be a superset of this one, and recommend just > > dropping Alan's patch. > > How about just doing your patch on top of Alan's instead? Seems like a lot more work; wasn't the point of keeping patches in a git tree like this to make it easy to drop old patches? I'd understand if it meant pulling apart and rebasing a git tree. -- "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."