Re: Adrian Bunk is now taking over the 2.6.16-stable branch

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On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:45:29AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:18:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:00:49AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:45:53PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > > In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:55:10 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > > > > I believe I had 'fix pdflush after suspend' queued in Greg's tree. Is
> > > > > > > > it still queued or should I resend?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Is this "pdflush: handle resume wakeups"?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Yes. Do you have it somewhere or should I dig it up?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've applied it.
> > > > 
> > > > Umm, is there some place we can check to see what you've applied?
> > > 
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git
> > 
> > No, I would not use the main git tree to queue patches up.  What happens
> > when you want to rip the middle one out because in review it turns out
> > that it is incorrect?
> 
>   git-revert

Ok, fair enough, but it messes with the changelogs a bunch.

> > Please use a quilt tree of patches instead, and then only commit the
> > patches when you do a release.  It's much simpler that way.
> 
> The way I'm doing it it's more the way the 2.4 and 2.6 trees work than 
> how the -stable tree works.
> 
> I prefer it the way I'm doing it.
> 
> If it turns out I was wrong I can always switch to a quilt tree.

Ok, it's your tree, you can mess with it as you like, just trying to
pass along a little advice from someone who has been there before... :)

good luck,

greg k-h
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