Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: implement autosuspend

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>]

On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 14:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote: 
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:29:42PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 14:25 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:16:25PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 17:12 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > > > Because this patch depends on those SCSI changes, either it should also 
> > > > > go via James's tree or else the SCSI patches should be imported into 
> > > > > Greg's tree first.  James and Greg, which route is easier for you?
> > > > 
> > > > They're USB patches, so they should be in a USB tree.  Just do a
> > > > standard postmerge tree based on SCSI.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, but then for now my tree will not build on its own, right?
> > 
> > Yes it will: a postmerge tree contains a buildable merge base and the
> > additional patches.  You can see how this is done at
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-post-merge-2.6.git
> > 
> > Which contains the ibft tree and scsi-misc as the merge base then has
> > be2iscsi patches that depend on both.  The tree is individually
> > buildable and linux-next only pulls in from merge-base to the top (have
> > to make sure it's included after all the other trees, though).
> 
> I think you forgot that I use quilt for my trees :)

There is a way of doing this in quilt.  I think you checkout my tree,
add the patch and some type of annotation for the top so linux-next
knows when to pull it in.

You just want me to put it in my tree, don't you ... ?

James