Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: implement autosuspend

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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 :)

thanks,

greg "old-skool" k-h