Re: [GIT PULL] block/IO bits for 2.6.36-rc1

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 14:15 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>  It might well make sense to base linux-next itself on the
> latest tagged release rather than on some random daily thing (and if
> the things that get merged _into_ linux-next then are based on a
> random daily thing and bring linux-next forward, then that's a problem
> with the trees getting merged - they shouldn't be doing that either).

Hm? I do that whenever you pull from me -- I'll pull the merge commit
into my own tree. So the mtd-2.6.git tree you pulled last night, for
example, was based on some "random daily thing" half-way between 2.6.35
and 2.6.26-rc1, which happened to be entitled 'Merge git://...mtd-2.6'.

I try to avoid having to *merge* such a thing, but it certainly does end
up in linux-next as the *base* for maintainers' tree. It's difficult to
see how that could be avoided.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation