From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Polling (was Re: [PATCHSET 2/2] implement PMP support, take 6) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:49:10 -0400 Message-ID: <46FDAF16.9080900@garzik.org> References: <1190521193410-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <46F9BF3E.5050708@garzik.org> <46FA1B4E.8090103@gmail.com> <46FD079F.3010007@garzik.org> <46FD0D50.8030602@gmail.com> <20070928155703.490d7575@the-village.bc.nu> <46FD1BAD.8020506@garzik.org> <20070928164312.208b8c56@the-village.bc.nu> <46FD2071.2070608@garzik.org> <46FD5D55.4070706@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38775 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752294AbXI2BtN (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:49:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46FD5D55.4070706@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Alan Cox , Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Mark Lord wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Alan Cox wrote: >>>> This doesn't affect Tejun or anyone else really, but going through >>>> -mm tends to gum up the works. Your patches wind up not applying to >>>> libata#upstream, in which case they get dropped and I assume Andrew >>>> or someone will resend usable versions. >>> >>> Its the only way to get testing done and get them into distributions in >>> time. >> >> Not true... libata gets auto-propagated into -mm, and Andrew pulls >> regularly. > > I believe the point was that getting things into libata is glacial > compared with getting them into -mm. Witness the PMP patchset. I don't think PMP was ever in -mm? But regardless, people can send me "for test only" or WIP stuff that I can auto-propagate to -mm via libata-dev.git. I keep many libata-dev.git branches alive with testing and WIP code, and it doesn't consume much time at all. Jeff