Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21 v3] amd64_edac: EDAC module for AMD64

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em Fri, 8 May 2009 12:07:38 +0200
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> escreveu:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 11:18:59PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 7 May 2009 16:38:07 +0200
> > > Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:27:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > > Regarding workflow, the arch/x86 bits look good to me now, so you've 
> > > > > got my Acked-by for that.
> > > > 
> > > > Cool, thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > Does that mean you're going to pick that one or...
> > > > 
> > > > > Most of the EDAC patches are hosted in 
> > > > > -mm, so we could carry them in the x86 tree separately as well and 
> > > > > export it to linux-next so that -mm will have it automatically.
> > > > 
> > > > is the bunch going through Andrew as a whole?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I could.  But there's negligible overlap with other EDAC work so 
> > > we might as well merge this via IngoTrees or directly from your 
> > > tree.
> > 
> > If Doug and you agrees too then i have no problem (at all) with 
> > Borislav carrying these bits in a separate tree, as long as he also 
> > opens an edac-next branch for linux-next and asks Stephen to pull 
> > it, and keeps it an append-mostly tree that isnt rebased.
> 
> I'll still need to rebase stuff to latest Linus tree for now since we're
> not yet ready reorganizing/cleaning up the code. After it gets merged,
> I'll switch to append-only mode.

One good idea is to split the Kbuild changes into a separate changeset. This
way, if compilation happens to break due to a merge conflict with other patches,
you can just write a fix patch fixing it before the Kbuild one, without
breaking git bisect.

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Cheers,
Mauro