From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762050AbYDZTnl (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:43:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759524AbYDZTne (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:43:34 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:33734 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758897AbYDZTnd (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:43:33 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <481385C6.3070304@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:43:02 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080419 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Harvey Harrison , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , LKML Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit References: <1209190455.14173.13.camel@brick> <20080426110044.GB2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080426075132.b0fdbe13.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080426152341.GI2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080426084420.8e61c379.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080426171604.GN2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <481379BB.5050208@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Well, the need to amend single patches --- and folding the amendment in before >> mainline submission to correct important problems of the first shot --- is >> something which happens all the time. > > .. and you simply SHOULD NOT PUBLICIZE the tree before it has gotten to a > reasonable point. I always aim for keeping the one subsystem git tree which I maintain in reasonable shape. Including its -mm and -next feeding branches. > Keep the rough-and-not-ready thing that is being discussed as patches on > lkml as your own working tree, and just don't expose it as a public git > branch. You can't do any sane discussion over git anyway - if things are > being actively worked-on among people, you'd be passing patches around as > emails etc. Sometimes I want problem reporters to test more than a single patch. In these cases, I refer them to patch kits and quilt queues which I maintain independently of linux1394-2.6.git; I almost never ask testers to try linux1394-2.6.git. linux1394-2.6.git has been, and still is, first and foremost my submission branch to -mm. And I have high expectations of what I submit to -mm. But sometimes something turns out to be a bad idea after all _long after_ I and the reviewers and testers thought it would be fine. Besides, the care that I take with my submissions to -mm also does not change the fact that I submit in different order to you than to -mm. (As mentioned, reordering could be done to some degree with a respective number of branches. I don't do it this way currently.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-- ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/