From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756303Ab0JSSxs (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:53:48 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:49443 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755947Ab0JSSxr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:53:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:53:13 +0100 From: Russell King To: Daniel Walker Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Arnd Bergmann , Joe Perches , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, lkml , Jeremy Kerr , Jeff Ohlstein Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree Message-ID: <20101019185313.GB11088@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20101018103540.7bd9c535.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <1287442418.5376.38.camel@Joe-Laptop> <201010191518.04147.arnd@arndb.de> <1287507806.10071.16.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <1287513757.10071.45.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1287513757.10071.45.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:42:37AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > That's why on occasions we do transgress the established process to > > accommodate such changes. Imagine just for a moment the patch that > > modified the interrupt callback prototype to remove the useless pt_regs > > argument. Obviously, it had to be done atomically to the _whole_ tree, > > and it was agreed that this patch was to be applied at the end of the > > merge window. But no one expected a single minute sending a CC to _all_ > > the driver authors. > > I don't actually know which patch your talking about, but it sounds > pretty simple.. I'm not really addressing really simple fixes, even tho > changing a single parameter on a function could be done broken up > depending on what it is. As you think that it's a simple matter, I challenge you to break this change up in a way that doesn't result in any build breakage: 7d12e780e003f93433d49ce78cfedf4b4c52adc5 -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: