On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 08:28:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:22 AM, James Hogan <james.ho...@imgtec.com> wrote: >> > >> > Okay, I've rebased the arch/metag tree onto mainline to make all the >> > back-merges unnecessary and applied those simple fixes into "Build >> > infrastructure" and "Various other headers" commits (additionally >> > trivially removing ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS which is also now unnecessary). >> >> No, this is *exactly* the wrong thing to do. > > <snip good practices and musings about maintainer trees> > > Hmm, so this comes up almost everytime new maintainers send stuff (and > when seasoned maintainers forget :)), maybe we should hold it down > somewhere in Documentation/ for future reference?
Hear hear! Come to think of it given how often Linus has bitched about rebasing and back merging I'm surprised it's not already mentioned. > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
