Re: [PATCH 00/21] ACPI: ibm-acpi: cleanups, extended fan/thermal support

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-12-07T19:35:33Z

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006, Len Brown wrote:
> Henrique,
> FYI, A pull of this branch will take everything included underneath it.
> In this case, it will take all the contents of acpi-test that this branch is built upon.
>
> That is fine for testing, but it isn't a path to upstream b/c
> not everything in acpi-test is going to get sent up to Linus at the same time as ibm-acpi.

I was operating under the false idea that the flow should be ibm-acpi-devel
-> acpi-test -> linus.

> For this batch, I'll just re-parent the series, or re-commit the e-mail patches.

Thanks.

> But in the future, if you base your patches directly against some snapshot of Linus' tree
> and don't include anything else besides your changes, then I can pull it directly.
> Of course you can do both by checking your changes in on a branch off of Linus'
> baseline and then merging onto your mirror of acpi-test. In that event I'd
> pull from your branch based on Linus' mirror.

Will do.

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Henrique Holschuh