linux-kernel - Re: git trees which are not yet in linux-next

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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2008 11:31:28 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, sfrench@...ibm.com,
	swhiteho@...hat.com, stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de, jeff@...zik.org,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org, drzeus-list@...eus.cx, jack@....cz,
	cbou@...l.ru, jens.axboe@...cle.com, ericvh@...il.com,
	wim@...ana.be, chris@...kel.net, nico@....org, clameter@....com,
	ezk@...sunysb.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git trees which are not yet in linux-next

On Mon, 5 May 2008 21:16:12 +0300
"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >  Guys, could you please prepare a tree for Stephen and send the details
> >  over to him?  Please Cc me also.
> >
> >  Once this has happened, there should be no need to run a separate for-mm
> >  branch.  I'll just switch over to using whatever branch linux-next is
> >  using.
> 
> I was looking at preparing a for-next branch for the SLAB tree but I'm
> not sure I understand the above. For something like the slab
> allocator, you want as much exposure as possible before asking Linus
> to pull so I would like to continue to (ab)use -mm for testing as
> well. But that doesn't seem to fit the linux-next rules at all...

You have stuff in your tree which isn't intended for 2.6.27??

> So what to do here? I don't have a problem with maintaining separate
> branches for mm and next where the latter is not going to get much
> action until very late in the release cycle when I'm preparing for the
> next merge window.

I don't mind, really - just do what you think is best for your subsystem
and then tell me and Stephen about it.  We'll only notice if you break
stuff ;)

So I'd suggest that you have a #for-next which contains material for 2.6.26
and 2.6.27 and a #for-mm which contains material for 2.6.28+.

Only problem is, I'd need to generate the #for-next -> #for-mm diff, and
that particular git operation has been troublesome in the past.

otoh, I think that staging for-2.6.26 and for-2.6.27 material in -mm really
is reaching far enough into the future, and I'd question the value of
staging for-2.6.28+ material as well.  I mean, that's half a year away.
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