From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760152AbYDQIzD (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:55:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752363AbYDQIyx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:54:53 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56704 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822AbYDQIyw (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:54:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:54:25 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Miller Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26 Message-Id: <20080417015425.312d34c0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080417.014534.258800340.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080417002552.5742ad65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080417083000.GA4935@elte.hu> <20080417014054.ea788f1f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080417.014534.258800340.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:45:34 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton > Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:40:54 -0700 > > > By keeping all this code out of -mm you haven't solved any of the > > merge/integration problems which we had in 2.6.24-rcX. > > I think things would have been a lot easier if you had adopted > basing -mm on top of linux-next from the very start. linux-next ramped up across the 2.6.25-rc window and I wanted to give it some time to see how it would pan out. > The responsiveness to problems and merge hassles has been so much > superior and efficient from the linux-next folks for my networking > stuff, for example. It's never been like that with -mm. I don't know what you mena by this. But linux-next integrates only the other subsystem trees and they have rarely caused me integration problems against git-net.