linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree

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Date:	Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:59:16 -0800
From:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree

On Wed, Feb 02 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> The actual problem here is that some people, notably the msm folks, are 
> bypassing the maintainer hierarchy and going straight to Linus for their 
> pull requests instead of asking RMK to pull.  We once debated this at 
> some point and it was agreed that completely independent SOC specific 
> code with no dependencies on the common ARM code _could_ go straight to 
> Linus directly if they crave for it.

I also have no real problem sending pull requests to RMK instead of
Linus, as long as it isn't a pain.  Linus gives clear directions as to
how his tree works, and when he expects what kinds of pull requests.
Weird web-based patch tracking systems are a pain.  Pull requests from
git with a fairly easy way to know when they've been pulled are not.

I also find that http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/ is frequently
inaccessable, and usually slow.

As it stands, so far, it's been a lot less work for me to send directly
to Linus, and resolve the issues that come up when they do.

David

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