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

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 03/25/2013 08:33:12 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:35:09AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >
> > On 26.03.2013, at 00:16, Scott Wood wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > 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
> > >
> > > That's a lousy excuse for leaving bugs unfixed.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> If it will result in the same commit showing twice in the Linus tree  
> in 3.10 we cannot do that.

Why?

-Scott