Re: [GIT PULL] late arch/metag fixes for v3.9-rc1

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 10:40:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Hmm, so this comes up almost everytime new maintainers send stuff (and
> > when seasoned maintainers forget :)), maybe we should hold it down
> > somewhere in Documentation/ for future reference?
> 
> If somebody wants to edit it a bit for readability (and maybe try to
> gather previous rants of mine), I'll happily take the patch.

I have a faint suspicion who "somebody" might be. :)

> And we should probably add some commentary from submaintainers too.
> They often have their own issues. Some of them are the same "dammit, I
> relied on a rebased tree of another", but I bet there are cross-merge
> issues *within* submaintainerships too (eg there are some trees that I
> pull that have their internal topic branches with multiple maintainers
> where they merge between them, and some of them sometimes seem to have
> a bit too much merging going on).

I'll scribble something up.

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    Boris.

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