From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:42963 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755951AbYBLStG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:49:06 -0500 Message-ID: <47B1EA0E.7080602@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:48:46 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) References: <20080211203146.3d28d1a0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080212044314.GA4888@kroah.com> <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080211.221126.230471463.davem@davemloft.net> <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <20080212174824.GA1919@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20080212174824.GA1919@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , David Miller , arjan@infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Greg KH wrote: > A lot of time that already happens today, between the different > subsystem maintainers. We routinely pass PCI and driver core changes > through the network and scsi and ata trees in order to handle merge > issues properly. This already happened in a few places in the > 2.6.25-rc1 merge cycle. Yep. I do that with the powerpc tree sometimes, too: I'll ACK a drivers/net change that is obviously PPC-specific, and that drivers/net change will go in via paulus. Like you said, it's done on a per-patch not git tree basis at the moment. That sort of cooperation has become common: in areas of shared responsibility, request an ack, and then the "most obvious" person (generally the one with most merge dependencies) merges that shared-responsibility change along with some other changes specific to their own tree. Jeff