Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Jeff Garzik
2008-02-12T18:49:20Z

Greg KH wrote:
> A lot of time that already happens today, between the different
> subsystem maintainers. We routinely pass PCI and driver core changes
> through the network and scsi and ata trees in order to handle merge
> issues properly. This already happened in a few places in the
> 2.6.25-rc1 merge cycle.

Yep. I do that with the powerpc tree sometimes, too: I'll ACK a
drivers/net change that is obviously PPC-specific, and that drivers/net
change will go in via paulus.

Like you said, it's done on a per-patch not git tree basis at the moment.

That sort of cooperation has become common: in areas of shared
responsibility, request an ack, and then the "most obvious" person
(generally the one with most merge dependencies) merges that
shared-responsibility change along with some other changes specific to
their own tree.

Jeff