linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] APEI patches for Linux 3.1

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Date:	Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:34:11 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] APEI patches for Linux 3.1

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 09:10:09 +0800 huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Push went here:
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git apei-release
> >
> > No it didn't.
> >
> > Apparently it went into linux-idle.
> >
> > Christ, Len. You send me *two* bogus pull requests, and all your pull
> > requests  come in at the very end of the merge cycle, when I very
> > clearly asked people to try hard to avoid that since I'm supposed to
> > be on vacation.
> >
> > And several of those commits are from today, and cannot have had any testing.
> >
> > In short: even though Tony told me where to look, I'm not seeing any
> > reason to pull this thing. The merge window is not for development,
> > and you're simply not making me get the warm and fuzzies about this
> > late pull request.
> 
> Most APEI patches have been in
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git test
> 
> since July 13th, and have been in linux-next since then.  I think Len
> just re-apply these patches in linux-idle tree.

The same sequence of commits appear in my acpi tree (the last 3 and the
origin merge since yesterday, the rest since July 16).

Linus, if you compare commit d7bdc8399c3c ("Merge branch 'apei' into
apei-release") from Len's acpi tree to the apei-release branch from the
idle tree, then you will see what I mean.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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