From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] au1000_eth platform device/driver conversion Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090730.131000.259116391.davem@davemloft.net> References: <200907282300.07144.florian@openwrt.org> <20090730.123450.224830320.davem@davemloft.net> <4A71F8FD.3060002@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: florian@openwrt.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, manuel.lauss@googlemail.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53235 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752256AbZG3UJw (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:09:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A71F8FD.3060002@ru.mvista.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Sergei Shtylyov Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:48:13 +0400 > Because they were only posted to linux-mips. And we didn't see #2 and > #4 in linux-mips either. That's not going to work. You can't apply some of these patches to one tree, and some to the other. That leaves the driver in a half-baked state in BOTH trees during the entire development period. So one of the two trees has to be chosen and all 4 patches added there, and there only.