Re: [PULL 0/7] ppc patch queue 2013-03-22

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:37:42AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 03/25/2013 08:33:12 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:35:09AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>
> >> On 26.03.2013, at 00:16, Scott Wood wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 03/25/2013 05:59:39 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> >> On 25.03.2013, at 23:54, Scott Wood wrote:
> >> >> > On 03/25/2013 05:32:11 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> >> >> On 25.03.2013, at 23:21, Scott Wood wrote:
> >> >> >> > -next?  These are bugfixes, at least partially for
> >regressions from 3.8 (that I pointed out before the bugs were
> >merged!), that should go into master.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Also, what about:
> >> >> >> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/226227/
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > You've got all four patches in kvm-ppc-3.9 as of a few
> >weeks ago -- will you be requesting a pull for that soon?
> >> >> >> Sigh. I guess I've screwed up the whole "let's make -next
> >an unusable tree and fix regressions in a separate one" workflow
> >again. Sorry for that.
> >> >> >> Since the patches already trickled into kvm's next branch,
> >all we can do now is to wait for them to come back through stable,
> >right? Marcelo, Gleb?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Well, you can still submit that kvm-ppc-3.9 pull request. :-)
> >> >> I can, but nobody would pull it, as it'd create ugly merge
> >commits when 3.10 opens
> >> >
> >> > That's a lousy excuse for leaving bugs unfixed.
> >>
> >> I agree. So if it doesn't hurt to have the same commits in
> >kvm/next and kvm/master, I'd be more than happy to send another
> >pull request with the important fixes against kvm/master as well.
> >>
> >If it will result in the same commit showing twice in the Linus
> >tree in 3.10 we cannot do that.
> 
> Why?
> 
Because Linus distastes it and mat refuse to pull. There is a way to avoid
such double commits: push fix to Linus tree and merge it back to next.

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			Gleb.
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