linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: cleanup comment error in balance

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Date:	Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:14:46 +0800
From:	Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@...il.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: cleanup comment error in balance_pgdat

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 07:11:09PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>
>> >acked, and then ask for it to be merged after an -rc1 release to avoid 
>> >lots of conflicts with other people's work.
>> 
>> You mean trivial maintainer only pull trivial patches for -rc1 release ?
>> 
>
>It all depends on how big your patch turns out to be; if it's sufficiently 
>large then it would probably be best to wait for -rc1, rebase your patch 
>to it, carry any acks that you have received, and ask it to be merged for 
>-rc2 to reduce conflicts with other code being pushed during the merge 
>window.  Otherwise, just make a big patch and ask Andrew to carry it in 
>the -mm tree but make sure to base it off linux-next as it sits today.  
>You'll want to clone 
>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git

Thank you David, thanks for your quick response.

Best Regards,
Wanpeng Li
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