Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

Andrew Morton
2005-03-04T23:52:36Z

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, care to forward them on?
> > > >
> > > > Sure. How do they get to Linus?
> > >
> > > I'll just pull from the sucker-tree.
> > >
> >
> > That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042 fix.
>
> Then when the authors of those patches go to submit the fix to Linus,
> they can revert them, or bk can handle the merge properly :)
>

Well yeah. That's what I mentioned yesterday - I revert the notfix while
merging up the realfix.

OK for really small stuff, but it could get messy. We'll see.

But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply
should not have been there.