From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200008041518.LAA25218@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com> To: Gabriel Paubert cc: Takashi Oe , Franz Sirl , Thomas Graichen , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: shifts on 64bit ints In-Reply-To: Message from Gabriel Paubert of "Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:21:08 +0200." Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:18:28 -0400 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >>>>> Gabriel Paubert writes: Gabriel> I plan to send a lot of small obvious bugfixes in the next 3-4 weeks, the Gabriel> diffs between my tree and the official one now run in the megabyte range, Gabriel> and this is too much (would the BitKeeper tree accept the VME patches and Gabriel> PrePboot BTW ?) Gabriel> What I would for one like to see is that people that write a patch that Gabriel> may affect other machines than their own first publish it on this list and Gabriel> wait a couple of days for comment and test results before pushing it to Gabriel> the official source tree, somewhat like what happens on gcc-patches. linuxppc-dev is not necessarily a patch submission mailinglist. Until PowerPC Linux development has such a thing, I think that it is better to coordinate with and directly send patches to someone with write-access who can apply the patches instead of throwing them up in the air and hoping that someone catches them. David ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/