From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263522AbTJLUOY (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:14:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263523AbTJLUOY (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:14:24 -0400 Received: from mail.convergence.de ([212.84.236.4]:11215 "EHLO mail.convergence.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263522AbTJLUOX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:14:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3F89B61E.9090106@convergence.de> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:14:22 +0200 From: Michael Hunold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/14] LinuxTV.org DVB driver update References: <20031011105320.1c9d46db.davem@redhat.com> <20031012110846.GA1677@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20031012110846.GA1677@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Sam, >>>It is your responsibility to resolve such things though. It is >>>inevitable and unavoidable that others outside of your development >>>group will make many changes to your files, as we fix bugs that >>>are tree-wide. >> >>So you best subscribe to bk-commits-head and monitor every patch that affects >>drivers/media/dvb/. > > > Or more simple - keep a copy of the kernel where your patches got applied, > and make a diff between that kernel and latest. > Apply that diff to your local tree, and you are up-to-date. > > This gives a good opportunity to review what has been applied without > passing the maintainer. Yes, another good hint. Thanks! > Sam CU Michael.