From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756230Ab2K1WQQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:16:16 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.19.201]:39187 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755663Ab2K1WQP (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:16:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:16:13 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Bill Pemberton , LKML , Andrew Morton , Linus Subject: Re: HOTPLUG replated patches Message-ID: <20121128221613.GA13534@kroah.com> References: <20121129090412.4fc1a6e5a41f9bc24b827c7c@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121129090412.4fc1a6e5a41f9bc24b827c7c@canb.auug.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:04:12AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > I haven't been closely following things, but is there any reason that a > large number of these CONFIG_HOTPLUG and __dev* patches are being merged > via the driver-core tree rather than through the relevant maintainers > trees? They aren't particularly urgent as far as I can see. And they > already have, and probably will, cause unnecessary conflicts between > trees. I merged the ones that were acked by the subsystem maintainer through my driver-core tree. Others are coming in through the subsystem maintainer's trees, as they have applied them there. So it's a mix, depending on the subsystem maintainer's wishes. And yes, it's going to be a bunch of trivial merge issues, sorry about that, I don't know of any other way at the moment to deal with that. thanks, greg k-h