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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [uml-devel] Re: UML merge in after 2.6.8.1 - what to do now
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:49:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409072149.i87LnQBP010747@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:40:15 +0200." <200408302140.15460.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>

blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it said:
> Now, how will we work? I have some ideas about this, which I'd like to
> discuss  with everybody here. I think that the UML patch will become
> the "development  tree" of UML, where new patches hang around to get
> some testing, while the  mainline kernel should get only safe patches.
> For instance, for now the humfs  and filehandle work must *not* go in
> mainline, since they are highly  experimental.

Yeah, this sounds reasonable.  My tree will be experimental stuff, and 
forwarded to Andrew/Linus when it is considered OK.  

> Also, the various uml patch should never be actually "merged" inside
> the UML  patch: it must always be a patchset, i.e. a collection of
> separate patches.  Like -mm. So merging with mainline will be easier,
> as reviewing separate  patches or dropping bad ones.

Yup.

				Jeff



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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-30 19:40 [uml-devel] UML merge in after 2.6.8.1 - what to do now BlaisorBlade
2004-09-07 21:49 ` Jeff Dike [this message]

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