From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760890AbYD0C6Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:58:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753694AbYD0C6D (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:58:03 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([69.61.125.42]:49363 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753620AbYD0C6C (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:58:02 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:58:00 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: David Miller Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, bunk@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, harvey.harrison@gmail.com, mchehab@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit Message-ID: <20080427025800.GD24710@havoc.gtf.org> References: <20080426084420.8e61c379.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080426171604.GN2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080426.173129.232382024.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080426.173129.232382024.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:31:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:31:36 -0700 (PDT) > > > And once you've publicized them, you don't know who has that tree, so just > > from a sanity and debugging standpoint, you should try to avoid mucking > > with already-public versions. If you made a mistake, add a patch on top to > > fix it (and announce the new state), but generally try to not "hide" the > > fact that the state has changed. > > I didn't rebase at all this past cycle for networking, and it > helped the people downstream from me _A LOT_. The Downstream Collective thanks you! ;-) Jeff