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Message-ID: <1287513757.10071.45.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:42:37 -0700
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree
> That's why on occasions we do transgress the established process to
> accommodate such changes. Imagine just for a moment the patch that
> modified the interrupt callback prototype to remove the useless pt_regs
> argument. Obviously, it had to be done atomically to the _whole_ tree,
> and it was agreed that this patch was to be applied at the end of the
> merge window. But no one expected a single minute sending a CC to _all_
> the driver authors.
I don't actually know which patch your talking about, but it sounds
pretty simple.. I'm not really addressing really simple fixes, even tho
changing a single parameter on a function could be done broken up
depending on what it is.
Daniel
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