Re: [GIT pull] x86 fixes for 2.6.26

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Sat, 17 May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > We've solved it by still doing the merges (we _need_ the information 
> > about potential upcoming merge trouble), but we dont commit them to the 
> > topic branches - we throw them away.
> 
> And that is *absolutely* the right thing to do.
> 
> Poeple need to test the different topic branches together some way anyway, 
> regardless of upcoming merge trouble, so yes, when you have more than one 
> branch, you inevitably need to have a "test branch" that ties them all 
> together for testing the end result (and that test branch generally would 
> be a throw-away one, like linux-next. In fact, it could *be* linux-next, 
> but there's good reason for you to test your own branches together rather 
> than waiting for an external entity to notice that your branches don't 
> work together).
> 
> So yes, sounds good.

In meantime - until we sorted out our new git life - can you please
pull the fixes without the noisy merge commits (resolved by rebasing
to keep thing rolling) from:

 ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-fixes-for-linus 

Thanks,
	tglx