From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759337AbYBXFtN (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:49:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753985AbYBXFs7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:48:59 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:43654 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753641AbYBXFs6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:48:58 -0500 Message-ID: <47C10546.7050508@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:48:54 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: romieu@fr.zoreil.com, bfields@fieldses.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes References: <20080220212302.GJ30160@fieldses.org> <20080220.134257.41491836.davem@davemloft.net> <20080220224053.GA8500@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20080220.150753.17432290.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20080220.150753.17432290.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > Jeff, I really don't want to pull that tree in. Please trust me as > your upstream to handle merging issues, as needed. I trust you... Otherwise I wouldn't have volunteered to move my upstream from Linus to you :) My main issues/motivations were: * quite simply, just force of habit: I'm used to basing off of a recent Linus tree, to guarantee build&boot testing against the latest. * worry about testing against a too-old tree, where non-networking fixes may have a relevant impact on my to-be-pushed netdrvr fixes. But in this case it's fair to say there are no such issues, and it was mainly just out of habit. So (as you saw in last email)... rebased and resend. Jeff