On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:04:10 +0000, José Fonseca <jfons...@vmware.com> wrote:
> mesa_7_7_branch and master are becoming quite different, because of all
> the gallium interface changes that have been going into master, so
> merging fixes from mesa_7_7_branch into master is becoming less and less
> of a trivial exercise.
> 
> This is aggravated by the fact we are basing a release from the
> mesa_7_7_branch, so it's likely that we'll need to have temporary
> non-invasive bugfixes that should not go into master (which should
> receive instead the proper and potentially invasive fix).
> 
> I see a few alternatives here:
> 
> a) stop merging mesa_7_7_branch -> master. bugfixes should be applied to
> both branches. preferably by the person that wrote the patch.

This, please.  I still hate the merge stable -> master plan, because it
means that the drivers of people other than the one doing the merge gets
broken.

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