From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] libata: implement ata_exec_internal() Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:18:57 -0500 Message-ID: <439E59C1.6090002@pobox.com> References: <20051128164201.GA7530@htj.dyndns.org> <438C0645.3020301@tw.ibm.com> <20051129131717.GA8505@htj.dyndns.org> <43924B5A.1070904@pobox.com> <4392F78A.2040209@gmail.com> <439341C2.5090205@pobox.com> <43994F85.7040300@gmail.com> <20051211042303.GA29403@htj.dyndns.org> <439E54F8.8020304@pobox.com> <439E56E1.1070109@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:59080 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751267AbVLMFTH (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:19:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <439E56E1.1070109@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Albert Lee , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > Oh... Sorry, all patches are against the ALL branch. Do you want me to > regenerate them against upstream? Yes, please. > Also, I'm currently working on a series of EH improvement patches > against the ALL branch. Would generating patches against upstream be > better? Unfortunately, generating patches against the ALL branch makes a lot of sense -- but it's also the worst choice you could make. Generating patches against the ALL branch means that your patch becomes dependent on -all- branches in libata-dev.git, even the branches that aren't going upstream for quite a while... which is generally not what you want at all. ALL is largely for testing and automated push to -mm, but not really for developers. Sometimes you will run into cases where I slacked off on the merge of upstream+irq-pio+etc and created a bug, but most of the time the merge is easy. If there are ALL-specific patches, you are welcome to submit them separately, with the recogition that any such ALL-specific patch would likely be dropped and recreated each time ALL gets blown away, and recreated. Jeff