Re: [PULL 0/7] ppc patch queue 2013-03-22

Alexander Graf
2013-03-25T22:59:39Z

On 25.03.2013, at 23:54, Scott Wood wrote:

> On 03/25/2013 05:32:11 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 25.03.2013, at 23:21, Scott Wood wrote:
>> > -next? These are bugfixes, at least partially for regressions from 3.8 (that I pointed out before the bugs were merged!), that should go into master.
>> >
>> > Also, what about:
>> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/226227/
>> >
>> > You've got all four patches in kvm-ppc-3.9 as of a few weeks ago -- will you be requesting a pull for that soon?
>> Sigh. I guess I've screwed up the whole "let's make -next an unusable tree and fix regressions in a separate one" workflow again. Sorry for that.
>> Since the patches already trickled into kvm's next branch, all we can do now is to wait for them to come back through stable, right? Marcelo, Gleb?
>
> Well, you can still submit that kvm-ppc-3.9 pull request. :-)

I can, but nobody would pull it, as it'd create ugly merge commits when 3.10 opens and kvm/next and linus/master get merged. IIUC that's exactly what Linus complained about with Avi's old workflow.

Alex