linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:28:00 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 15:05 +0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > My original intend was to put it in powerpc-next and then shoot it to
> > stable, but it got a tad annoying (due to churn it needs to be applied
> > at least on rc4 or later while my next is at rc1 and clean that way), so
> > I put it in the merge branch.
> 
> Quite frankly, I'll prefer to not merge it now, and then 3.13 will get
> it from stable, when it does things like this.
> 
> Partly because it fixes a power-only bug, but potentially changes
> non-power behavior. If it was all in arch/powerpc, I wouldn't mind.

Right, I wasn't too comfortable either. I'll resend the pull request
after the merge window is open.

Cheers,
Ben.

>                Linus
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