On 2/7/08, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:54:06 -0700 > "Grant Likely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It went through my tree. Paul pulls from Josh Boyer's tree for > > powerpc-4xx patches, and Josh pulls from mine for xilinx virtex > > powerpc 405 patches. > > > > My screw up, sorry I broke the rules. What is the best way to resolve this? > > > > Well I think we'd like to see the patches appear in Paul's tree well before > the merge window if poss - that way they'll get a little bit of tyre-kicking > and perhaps review via -mm. Kamalesh and I (at least) do perform build- > and runtime testing of powerpc.
Fair enough. I can do so in the future. > I would request that Paul copy myself and the main mailing list on pull > requests. > > It seems wrong that the signoff trail for that patch didn't actually > reflect reality - it should have had both Josh's and Paul's signoffs. That > would require that the changelog be altered during git->git transfers which > I expect is just incompatible with the way git works (as far as I dimly > understand it). > > It never hurts to send a patch to lkml even if you believe it isn't of > general interest. People will pass an idle eye across it, and things might > get picked up, yielding improvements. Plus more people know about its > existence. Probably this is more the case for something which resides > under drivers/char/ than with something which resides in arch/powerpc/... ok Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
