On Tuesday, 2 October 2007 11:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds 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.. > > > > Doing it as early as possible in the 2.6.24-rc4 series (basically I'll do > > it first thing) will mean that we'll have the maximum amount of time to > > sort out any issues, and the thing is, Thomas and Ingo already have a tree > > ready to go, so people can check their work against that, and don't need > > to think that they have to do any fixups after it his *my* tree. It would > > be much better if everybody was just ready for it, and not taken by > > surprise. > > > > In other words, people who know they may be affected and would want to > > prepare can look at (for example) > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git x86 > > > > and generally get ready for the switch-over. > > I have uploaded an update of the arch/x86 tree based on -rc9 to > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git x86 > > For convenience there is a patch fixup script which helps you to > convert pending patches against this tree. > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~tglx/x86/x86-fixup-patches.py > > It's generated from the merge script and fixes the namespace of > patches. There will still be some rejects which can not be fixed up > automatically, but this should be rare. > > I did a test with Andrews -mm series and only ~10 arch/x86 related > patches had rejects, out of 230+ patches, so the 100%-painless > conversion ratio is better than 95%. Those patches with rejects were > trivial to fix. > > Usage: x86-fixup-patches.py sourcepatch destpatch > > source and dest can be the same. > > A helper script to convert complete quilt series is here: > http://userweb.kernel.org/~tglx/x86/fixupseries.sh > > If there is anything we can help with the transition, please do not > hesitate to ask.
Well, there are several arch-dependent power management patches in -mm queued up for merging. Do I need to take care of converting them myself, or will that be done automatically, or ...? Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
