Re: drivers/drm/i915 maintenance process

[Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>]

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On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:23:43 +1000, Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> wrote:

> So when Linus is releasing rc4/5 you should really be cutting down stuff
> going into your -next, and getting the tree ready for me to take. We can
> probably add your tree direct to the -next git list as well so that we
> can get the benefits of -next testing earlier.

Right, even earlier than I had thought. That should be pretty easy to follow.

> Just make sure any merge commits are documented in the commit, this
> generally means having to git commit --amend the merge commit since most
> of the time it doesn't allow you to write anything unless you get a
> conflict, esp if its a strange non i915 commit (like say some ACPI or
> bluetooth commit that fixes a test laptop).

Thanks for your comments; I'll try to have -next ready by rc4/rc5 time
this release.

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keith.packard@intel.com

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