linux-kernel - Re: + wireless-fix-iwlwifi-unify-init-driver-flow.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <20080514123432.GB3349@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 May 2008 08:34:32 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ron.rindjunsky@...el.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	tomas.winkler@...el.com, git@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + wireless-fix-iwlwifi-unify-init-driver-flow.patch added to
	-mm tree

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:15:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

> I used to play this game, it's a lot of work and it sucks.  One
> "drib" can require fixing up 200 patches down the chain.  And
> I've had this happen to me all the time in the past when I was
> rebasing all the time.

I have to agree with Dave.

Moreover, I used to get regular complaints about the old "regular
rebase" process.  We switched to a "pull and merge" process for 2.6.25,
and in that period nearly all of the process-related complaints
disappeared for me.

To some degree this is a "pick your poison" issue, and for most people
rebasing seems like the deadlier poison.

John
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John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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