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From: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
To: Peter Feuerer <pfe@piie.net>
Cc: Rahul Chaturvedi <rkc@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, msb@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CHROMIUM: acerhdf: fix bug when running on Qemu
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:49:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100506204952.GA13101@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cone.1273176533.938023.17424.1000@deskpiie>

Peter Feuerer (pfe@piie.net) wrote:
> Rahul Chaturvedi writes:
>
>> BTW, the CHROMIUM in the subject is just used for internal bookeeping
>> for patches not yet accepted upstream.
>
> What does it mean? Should I take care about getting it upstream?
>

You can drop it. We use it for internal bookkeeping in the chromium
git tree.

http://chromiumos-git/?p=kernel.git

Its useful to us when we rebase our kernel to a new 2.6.x.
We use it to record which tree the patch came from: did it come from
upstream, did we write, did we pull it from a maintainer tree.

> --peter;

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-06 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1273122377-12137-1-git-send-email-rkc@chromium.org>
2010-05-06  5:41 ` [PATCH] CHROMIUM: acerhdf: fix bug when running on Qemu peter
2010-05-06  5:44 ` Rahul Chaturvedi
2010-05-06 20:08   ` Peter Feuerer
2010-05-06 20:49     ` Mandeep Singh Baines [this message]

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