On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Dan Carpenter wrote: > To be honest, I have no idea what's going on in the trivial tree > these days or what the rules are there. Frankly, there are no strict rules. The patch has to qualify as described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches, but that's basically it. > But my instinct says that this would be better broken up into per > subsystem patches and sent through the normal trees. Patches that touch > a ton of files like this are hard to merge all at once. Someone is going > to be changing some files and you'll get conflicts. I am taking cross-subtree patches into trivial.git if they are not causing super-huge conflics in linux-next, and I handle the conflict resolution myself when pushing to Linus. But I don't mind if it goes through subsystem maintainers instead if both parties prefer it that way. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
