On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007 12:37:55 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:17:02 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > >>> This is also a good time to warn about the fact that we're doing the
> > >>> x86
> > >>> merge very soon (as in the next day or two) after 2.6.23 is out, so if
> > >>> you
> > >>> have pending patches for the next series that touch arch/i386 or
> > >>> x86-64,
> > >>> you should get in touch with Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar, who are
> > >>> the
> > >>> keepers of the merge scripts, and will help you prepare..
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes I have ~100 patches for arch/x86_64, arch/i386
> > >
> > > Should I just drop them?
> >
> > Why don't you work with Thomas and Ingo to make sure everything is in
> > sync and prepped for 2.6.24?
>
> The easiest way to do that would be to first merge all the queued and
> collected patches from the last months. Once they are in people
> can then create whatever mess they like.
>
> The other way round (adapting 100+ patches to a possibly completely
> different tree) will be a huge amount of work which I am
> frankly not very motivated to do because I think it's quite unnecessary.
>
> I would probably just push the work back to all the patch submitters -- that
> is
> what I meant with dropping the patches.
I picked up your queue at
ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt-current/current.tar.gz
and converted it with the fixup script to:
http://www.tglx.de/~tglx/patches-ak.tar.bz2
Hope that helps,
tglx
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