On Feb. 12, 2008, 19:41 +0200, James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 09:09 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> (a) create a base tree with _just_ that fundamental infrastructure change, >> and make sure that base branch is so obviously good that there is no >> question about merging it. > > The problem is how do we use a? Usually we need to track your -rc tree > as our fixes go in ... some of which affect our development trees. > > If we stick with (a) as the base, we don't get to pull in the fixes in > your tree. If we use your tree we have to pull in (a) creating n > different merge points for the n different upstream trees..
IMHO, this base tree should typically be based off of linus' tree and kept rebased on top of it. This way you get the mainline fixes through the integration base tree. Benny -- 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/
