From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261701AbVFFVna (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:43:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261702AbVFFVn3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:43:29 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:36747 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261701AbVFFVnT (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:43:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:43:52 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: jayalk@intworks.biz Cc: adaplas@pol.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2.6.12-rc5 1/1] Framebuffer driver for Arc LCD board Message-Id: <20050606144352.140cfe42.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200506061416.j56EG18b017582@intworks.biz> References: <200506061416.j56EG18b017582@intworks.biz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jayalk@intworks.biz wrote: > > I did this diff against > rc5. Should I be doing it against -mm instead? I generally prefer diffs against whatever is in -mm, mainly so we can see what changed, and so that we can make sure that everyones fixups didn't get lost. If a patch has only been in -mm for a short period then a wholesale replacement is OK. It gets a bit complex because people do insist on trying to add lots of trailing whitespace to the tree and I do insist on thwarting them, but I fix all that up. In this case I got anal and turned your new patch into an incremental one ;)