From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753209AbXC0F2D (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:28:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753174AbXC0F2D (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:28:03 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:49247 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753209AbXC0F2A (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:28:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:27:11 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "Mike Frysinger" Cc: "Paul Mundt" , "Wu, Bryan" , "Arnd Bergmann" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin arch: add kdebug header file Message-Id: <20070326222711.d2f42da2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0703262217g16aa62d4g1221082deda0aed2@mail.gmail.com> References: <1174903941.32691.72.camel@roc-desktop> <200703262345.09489.arnd@arndb.de> <1174966837.6966.13.camel@roc-desktop> <20070327035734.GA25883@linux-sh.org> <8bd0f97a0703262134h20bdf8dcqb1043ca176a7149c@mail.gmail.com> <20070327044914.GA26099@linux-sh.org> <8bd0f97a0703262217g16aa62d4g1221082deda0aed2@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:17:06 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 3/27/07, Paul Mundt wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt wrote: > > > >You should really consider the latter for getting updates merged in the > > > >future > > > > > > we're planning for this, but the short term it isnt doable for us > > > > If you think mangling patches by hand is a more effective use of time, no > > one is stopping you -- some people even prefer that. On the other hand, if > > you're struggling with an effective methodology before things are merged, > > what reason is there to suspect that things will get better afterwards? > > we have a lot of infrastructure that the SCM is part of and at the > moment, git is not a supported SCM > > i'm not saying the current system is easy, just that we cant integrate > git in the short term, so we'll continue spanking Bryan with the > overhead :/ In that case, Bryan may like to know that git, mercurial (IIRC), and quilt have patchbomb tools. Also GregKH has one somewhere (he can tell you where). And Paul Jacksone has one at http://www.speakeasy.org/~pj99/sgi/sendpatchset --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***