Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05T17:20:34Z

Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:05:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042 fix.
>>
>>Then when the authors of those patches go to submit the fix to Linus,
>>they can revert them, or bk can handle the merge properly :)
>
>
> How about having two BK trees - one containing "fixes for Linus" and
> the other "fixes not for Linus but we really need" ? The "sucker
> tree" then becomes the two merged together.
>
> This way, Linus would never see the "fixes not for Linus" at all.

Yup, BK could definitely handle that...

Jeff