Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

Greg KH
2005-04-24T19:57:27Z

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:26:22AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > In the patches/ subdir below that one, is a mirror of my quilt patches
> > directory, series file and all. That way people can still see the
> > individual patches if they want to.
> >
> > Does this help some? It's all still under flux as to how this all
> > works, try something and go from there :)
>
> Yes, it would be nice to have gregkh's patches in -mm as individual patches.

It would? Ok, that's easy to change.

> Of course, whatever gets done, I'd selfishly prefer that most (or even all)
> subsystem maintainers work the same way and adopt the same work practices.
>
> I guess it's too early to think about that, but if one maintainer (hint)
> were to develop and document a good methodology and toolset, others might
> quickly follow.

Heh, ok, I can take a hint, I'll work on this this week. I already have
the "export a series of patches from a git tree that are not in another
git tree" working, so it shouldn't be tough to get the rest in an
"automated" manner.

thanks,

greg k-h