linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

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Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:05:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

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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