linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8

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Message-ID: <20080402185724.GH10816@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:57:24 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:03:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>...
> In other words, there are people I think are generally trusted across most 
> maintenance borders. Al, as far as I'm concerned, is one of them.  
> Especially sicne he is also one of the few people who clearly not only 
> does run sparse but also looks at the code and actually fixes real bugs 
> with byte order etc - regardless of where it is (ie he works across 
> drivers, filesystems, an arch-specific code)
> 
> In other words, I don't think the borders are so tightly drawn, and the 
> same way I trust the individual developers who send me patches (and git 
> trees) rather than whatever _companies_ they happen to work, I also tend 
> to trust individual developers rather than the _subsystem_ that they 
> happen to maintain.
> 
> Of course, there's often a rather direct mapping between the two, where 
> people naturally have the area they work in. But some people cross across 
> any particular area, and while that tends to be unusual, that very much 
> includes people like Andrew and Al.
>...

What should I sent directly to you and for what should I pray that 
someone picks it up?

E.g. I have a some patches that add missing MODULE_LICENSE's to modules 
and some build fixes (some of the patches already sent to linux-kenrel, 
some are still in my private testing) that IMHO belong into 2.6.25.

I also have sparse fixes and similar stuff pending.

And what about the removal of the broken v850 port I've already sent 
five times to linux-kernel?

Etc.

> 			Linus

cu
Adrian

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