Re: Kernel SCM saga..

Russell King
2005-04-07T09:56:41Z

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:25:18AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > (I don't do that for -mm because -mm basically doesn't work for 99% of
> > the time. Takes 4-5 hours to out a release out assuming that
> > nothing's busted, and usually something is).
>
> On the subject of -mm: are you going to keep doing the BK imports to
> that for the time being, or would it be better to leave the BK trees
> alone now and send you individual patches.
>
> For that matter, will there be a brief amnesty after 2.6.12 where Linus
> will use BK to pull those trees which were waiting for that, or will we
> all need to export from BK manually?

Linus indicated (maybe privately) that the end of his BK usage would
be immediately after the -rc2 release. I'm taking that to mean "no
more BK usage from Linus, period."

Thinking about it a bit, if you're asking Linus to pull your tree,
Linus would then have to extract the individual change sets as patches
to put into his new fangled patch management system. Is that a
reasonable expectation?

However, it's ultimately up to Linus to decide. 8)

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core