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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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