Re: [git pull] Fixes to 2.6.30rc2

[Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 01:59 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:49:59 -0700
>>
>> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel drm-intel-next
>>
>> Eric, any plans to ever push your work through David Airlie's DRM
>> tree?  I've been watching this for a few weeks and I'm mystified why
>> the Intel DRM drier stuff is so special that is always goes seperate.
>>
>> It's seems foolish for David to manage the infrastructure and core DRM
>> changes, as well as those for radeon and the other drivers other than
>> Intel, which could potentially cause merge issues and conflicts with
>> your driver changes.
>>
>> Why not do Intel DRM driver development via his tree?  I just don't
>> get it. :-/
>
> Inside of the merge window, I am going through Dave again because he
> requested it (though delays meant that I didn't get a major cleanup in
> this merge window).  However, Dave is also quite busy, and not stealing
> his time every few days to pull my tree for just forwarding bugfixes on
> seems to be a win.

btw which cleanup, I seem to remember it arriving after the merge
window had opened.

The theory is the code was in my tree before Linus opened the window
or it doesn't
get merged.

Dave.

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> Eric Anholt
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