On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > We need to ask Linus to promise that he will pull the stable branch from > linux-next first in the merge window. For that to happen, I would expect > that Linus would also review and sign off (or ack) these commits to the > linux-next tree. Changing the commits in git in anyway changes their ID, which has the same effects as a rebase. With this idea, Linus only has two choices: 1. pull the entire set of linux-next changes whether he likes them or not, because he's going to get them either from the linux-next tree or someone elses tree which is based upon that. 2. don't pull the changes, nor anyone elses tree if he hates the changes in linux-next. So really, Linus needs to ack the changes _before_ they go into linux-next. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html