On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:42:03 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:08:50 +0100 > Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > first of all, I think that the driver should go through lkml before > > upstream > > merge or at least be in -mm for a while (I think this used to be a rule > > some > > time ago), correct me if I'm wrong, but none of it happened. > > Never seen it before in my life. Can't find any references to it in any of > the mailing lists. I ended up googling the changelog text for a whopping > three hits and it appears that this change went into the powerpc patch > system (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=16712) > > How it got from there into Linux is also a mystery. I see a batch of > powerpc updates just went into mainline but I don't know whose tree was > pulled - I wasn't copied on any pull request and I can't find one on the > kernel mailing list. > > Perhaps Paul has just done a stealth merge, but the patch to which you > refer doesn't have his signoff. Very confused. Gah, no. Don't blame Paul. It wasn't actually stealth either as it got posted a few times to the powerpc list. You can blame me and/or Grant if you'd like. It's a Virtex specific driver and I didn't see any problem with it going in through the powerpc tree. I'll/we'll do better next time. > Guys, can we all play too? Sure. You could add my tree to -mm if you want. Though I'd really rather if we all sync up with Paul sooner so you don't have to track 5 or 6 "powerpc" trees. josh -- 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/
