Re: [PATCH] libsrp: fix compile failure

Jiri Kosina
2010-01-04T22:00:41Z

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Yes, it indeed is that way -- Andew pulls whole linux-next as one of the
> > patches into -mm series.
> >
> > To make linux-next really working the way it is intended to work we need
> > to have -mm part of it, as it is used as a last point for a non-trivial
> > amount of patches before they enter Linus' tree.
> >
> > Andrew, why do we have the current setup, and not the other way around?
>
> Because I suck. I haven't yet got around to feeding -mm into
> linux-next. It's a bit tricky, because -mm is based on linux-next.
> Probably we'll address this by adding a "linux-next before the mm bits"
> marker to linux-next.

Yup. That should work and would be really helpful.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.