From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37197 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761015AbYBLGKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:10:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:11:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080211.221126.230471463.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20080211203146.3d28d1a0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080212044314.GA4888@kroah.com> <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: arjan@infradead.org Cc: greg@kroah.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:17:51 -0800 > this is why you need specific trees for just the API change API trees don't work, just like other changes they will have interdependencies on things like fixups, cleanups, etc. This is why, with the networking, we've just tossed all of the network driver stuff in there too. I can rebase freely, remove changesets, rework them, etc. and this causes a very low amount of pain for Jeff Garzik and John Linville. This may or not be a legitimate thing to do with other heavily dependant subsystems.