linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] late arch/metag fixes for v3.9-rc1

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Message-ID: <20130302181025.GA15498@pd.tnic>
Date:	Sat, 2 Mar 2013 19:10:25 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>, Arnd <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] late arch/metag fixes for v3.9-rc1

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 08:28:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:22 AM, James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, I've rebased the arch/metag tree onto mainline to make all the
> > back-merges unnecessary and applied those simple fixes into "Build
> > infrastructure" and "Various other headers" commits (additionally
> > trivially removing ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS which is also now unnecessary).
> 
> No, this is *exactly* the wrong thing to do.

<snip good practices and musings about maintainer trees>

Hmm, so this comes up almost everytime new maintainers send stuff (and
when seasoned maintainers forget :)), maybe we should hold it down
somewhere in Documentation/ for future reference?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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