From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756410AbYCXXsb (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:48:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753016AbYCXXsV (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:48:21 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43815 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753312AbYCXXsU (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:48:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:48:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080324.164810.83653077.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rpjday@crashcourse.ca Subject: Re: + netdev-cassini-use-shorter-list_splice_init-macro-for-brevity.patch added to -mm tree From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080324163105.154a031a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080324161045.045ef5c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080324.162138.50436206.davem@davemloft.net> <20080324163105.154a031a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Morton Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:31:05 -0700 > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:21:38 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller wrote: > > > net-2.6.26 is what is going into the linux-next tree > > urgh. I wish I had some algorithm for detecting when net-2.6.x+1 appears. > > Perhaps you could create it on the day 2.6.x is released and leave it empty > for a while. That way I'll notice when net-2.6.x vanishes and I can switch > to 2.6.x+1 immediately? Sure, but in this case you were using plain "net-2.6" which is only for bug fixes and is synced fairly rapidly to Linus, so I don't see how this is relevant here. net-2.6 is always just a sync mechanism, rarely generating merge conflicts with other people, and not something people other than say Jeff Garzik and John Linville (people who actively push to me) should generally follow unless they want to. It's just the same to follow Linus's tree especially as the -rcX process winds down. If you had been using net-2.6.24 or something like that, yeah I could see the issue :-)