Re: [uml-devel] Re: merge status

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 14:36, Rob Landley wrote:
> Linus said this:
> > I think one reason -mm has worked so damn well (apart from you being "The
> > Calmest Man on Earth"(tm)) is because it's essentially been that buffer
> > for anything non-trivial. Sometimes the "n+2" has been a lot more than
> > "n+2" in fact, and that's often good.
> >
> > (And at the same time, -mm has enough visibility that it doesn't drive
> > developers crazy even when the "n+2" ends up being "n+5" or somethiing).
> >
> > I'd _hope_ that the same kind of situation could work for some of the
> > majos subsystem git trees too: where the maintainer tree is well enough
> > known that it gets sufficient coverage for that area that a "+2" approach
> > for merging into the default kernel is practical.
> >
> > I also think it certainly _should_ be possible for the big areas that
> > have well-defined target audiences.
>
> And so I thought a bit about what that tree would be for UML (-mm?  -bb?)
> and decided "it's gotta be Jeff's tree as defined by
> user-mode-linux.sf.net/patches.html", so I grabbed the big rolled up
> tarball there that applies on top of 2.6.15-rc1:
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/work/current/2.6/2.6.15-rc1/patches.
>tar

Definitely Jeff's tree is a first filter for his work, but I've not seen it 
working a lot as a collector, especially for little fixes - but there it 
makes sense.

I tend to send directly to Andrew and he forwards them to Linus (in many cases 
so fast that I wonder if they appear in one -mm release), but I currently do 
not have a public tree.

> And applied them all (in series order) with a for loop.

Can I suggest using quilt for this (as it's more powerful and easy to use)?

Especially when you add other patches as compile fixups...

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