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

Gleb Natapov
2013-03-26T01:33:12Z

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:35:09AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
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> On 26.03.2013, at 00:16, Scott Wood wrote:
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> > On 03/25/2013 05:59:39 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> 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.
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> >> >> > 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
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> > That's a lousy excuse for leaving bugs unfixed.
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> I agree. So if it doesn't hurt to have the same commits in kvm/next and kvm/master, I'd be more than happy to send another pull request with the important fixes against kvm/master as well.
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If it will result in the same commit showing twice in the Linus tree in 3.10 we cannot do that.

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Gleb.