> That's why on occasions we do transgress the established process to > accommodate such changes. Imagine just for a moment the patch that > modified the interrupt callback prototype to remove the useless pt_regs > argument. Obviously, it had to be done atomically to the _whole_ tree, > and it was agreed that this patch was to be applied at the end of the > merge window. But no one expected a single minute sending a CC to _all_ > the driver authors. I don't actually know which patch your talking about, but it sounds pretty simple.. I'm not really addressing really simple fixes, even tho changing a single parameter on a function could be done broken up depending on what it is. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html