Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Russell King
2008-02-14T08:20:47Z

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> We need to ask Linus to promise that he will pull the stable branch from
> linux-next first in the merge window. For that to happen, I would expect
> that Linus would also review and sign off (or ack) these commits to the
> linux-next tree.

Changing the commits in git in anyway changes their ID, which has the
same effects as a rebase.

With this idea, Linus only has two choices:

1. pull the entire set of linux-next changes whether he likes them or not,
because he's going to get them either from the linux-next tree or someone
elses tree which is based upon that.

2. don't pull the changes, nor anyone elses tree if he hates the changes
in linux-next.

So really, Linus needs to ack the changes _before_ they go into linux-next.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/