linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for March 6

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:47:15 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for March 6

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:24:50 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:13:11 +1100
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > Dropped trees (temporary):
> > 	rr (build problem)
> 
> It's quite irritating and somewhat risky when this happens.  It means
> that I have to teporarily drop or rework patches to fix things up. 
> Then the patch needs to be undropped or unreworked when the offending
> tree gets restored.
> 
> Is it possible to just drop back to the previous day's version when
> something gets screwed up?

I will try this and see how hard it is.  I have done a few today with no
ill effects (that I have seen yet).

The other side of the coin is that there are some dependencies between
some of the trees that are included in linux-next.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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