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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Subject: Re: large cross tree spelling fixes
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:31:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110428233111.3ca7b04f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110428130427.06925753.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:04:27 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Linus,
> 
> Next time you are tempted to take one of these, please resist. :-)
> 
> It was not urgent, could have been (at least) broken up and sent to the
> respective maintainers, and caused many conflicts in linux-next (which
> either means unnecessary rebases/merges or you will see the conflicts
> next merge window).

Probably the best time for this sort of thing is immediately after
-rc1, when everyone's out-of-tree trees are the smallest.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-28  3:04 large cross tree spelling fixes Stephen Rothwell
2011-04-29  6:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-04-29 14:08 ` Lucas De Marchi

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