On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 01:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's more of a "I don't feel like spending 1-2 hours making and testing
> > > > a -mm version"
> > >
> > > There shouldn't be a need for special -m version of patches. Very usually
> > > the diff-against-linus can be made to work quite easily. Sufficiently
> > > easily that I resync with all the git trees a couple of times a day.
> >
> > Often the patch itself may not take too much work, but you still need to
> > set up a -mm test directory, compile, boot, and test the stuff.
>
> Most of the other git-tree maintainers don't bother with any of that.
> acpi, agp, alsa, arm, ... xfs. The trees which have special -mm branches
> are just drm, ieee1394, jfs, mips and netdev.
jfs doesn't really maintain a separate -mm branch. I set up the tree to
be flexible if I ever had a reason to hold something back from the Linus
tree, but in reality, -mm is equal to HEAD, and the -linus branch is
usually the same when I ask for it to be pulled.
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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