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Message-ID: <20090612114055.3579ad92@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:40:55 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>,
	Ryan Mallon <ryan@...ewatersys.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, san@...roid.com,
	rlove@...gle.com
Subject: Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

O> > - is it essential to completely flatten down to single patches for new
> > drivers?  We do have history including contributions from Qualcomm,
> > HTC, etc, which would be nice to preserve in some cases, but if that's
> > impractical, we can do a complete rebase and flatten on top of tip of
> > tree.
> 
> I guess preserving history is not top priority.

Preserving the history is very important if it contains things like
authorship data. If you are feeding a git tree into the kernel then its
probably best to keep it in that format all the way to Linus.

Alan
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