linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 4.8-2

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Date:	Mon, 8 Aug 2016 09:54:42 -0700
From:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 4.8-2

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:23:09PM -0400, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > Minor platform specific event handling updates and a Kconfig cleanup.
> 
> No. You already sent a *different* copy of all of these except for the
> dell-wmi one in a previous pull requests.

Well that is pretty terrible on my part. I screwed up in my management of my
fixes branch.  I'll dig through this to make sure I didn't mess up anything else
and submit a new pull request for anything missing.

Apologies Linus.

> 
> This pull request gets me four new commits, but three of them I
> already had. From you.
> 
> See for example your new commit
> 
>   2dd73625dedc platform/x86: Drop duplicate dependencies on X86
> 
> vs
> 
>   25789f95a883 platform/x86: Drop duplicate dependencies on X86
> 
> which are identical patches, just different dates.
> 
> Why should I pull a branch that is this confused?
> 
> It's not like I got those patches from somebody else, and there was
> just a mis-communication about who should apply them. They were both
> from *you*. That old commit came in in 4.7-rc4, so it's not even all
> that recent.
> 
>               Linus
> 

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center