linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] The -rt git tree

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0812091248020.19115@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:52:13 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Clark Williams <clark.williams@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] The -rt git tree


On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Fr?d?ric Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve.
> 
> That's a good news.
> 
> But after converting these spinlocks into lock_t, how will you synchronize with
> the mainline on each release? You will have a huge amount of conflicts
> at every merges...

This is why master is separate from rt-master. The rt-master will grow 
like tip/master does. But the master will be recreated each time. 
Basically, the creation of master is this:


git checkout master
git reset --hard rt-master
./scripts/convert-spinlocks
git commit -a -m 'Convert all spinlocks to lock_t'
./scripts/convert-locks
git commit -a -m 'Convert some locks back to spinlock_t'

Thus we do not need to worry about the conflicts caused by the lock 
conversion. That will be done automatically each time we create a new 
master.

-- Steve

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