Re: Fwd: [GIT PULL] [3.2] Please pull tegra boards for 3.2

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 14 August 2011, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi Arnd,
> > > 
> > > Please pull the first set of tegra/board patches for 3.2:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The following changes since commit e6a99d312687a42c077a9b8cb5e757f186edb1b9:
> > > 
> > >  Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
> > > (2011-08-09 08:42:16 -0700)
> > > 
> > > are available in the git repository at:
> > > 
> > >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/olof/tegra.git boards-for-3.2
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Olof,
> > 
> > The contents all look good, but I'm undecided whether we should have
> > branches that are not based on a -rc release. In your case, it's
> > halfway between -rc1 and -rc2.
> > 
> > Do others have an opinion? If we decide to take development branches
> > only when they are based on a proper -rc, I'll do the simple rebase
> > of the patches and push them out, otherwise I'll push them as they are.
> 
> Although this might be a nicety, I personally don't particularly care 
> about the base being set on a tag. I think that keeping the original 
> committer info intact is more valuable.

Right. In general having a devel branch based on a tag is a good
thing, but as long as it's not some random commit from the middle of
the merge window, it's fine.

Thanks,

	tglx