On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:20:53PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why am _I_ responsible for which kernel version _Catalin_ used > > for _his_ patches when _he_ committed them? > > If you then pull that tree from him and push it out to > linux-next? Then *of course* you are responsible, it was your > decision to pull it. > > I frequently reject pulls from subsystem maintainers on similar > (and sometimes lesser) grounds - because such mistakes tend to > compound with time. > > The thing is, if you do Git pulls from someone then you must be > absolutely anal about it, because you cannot really fix things > up after the fact. The people you pull from must be your > extended arms, they must be doing an equal or better job than > you. That gives a basis of trust. > > Once that is established, you can be permissive about mistakes. > > But arguing that you are not responsible for what you pull is > absolutely grotesque and establishes a new low for this > discussion really... > > Also, as I told you in the very first mail, I am *fine* with > this having happened, so you having zapped the commits is > indefensible IMO. Mistakes do happen and the patch is fine > technically and sfr and Linus could have handled the trivial > conflict. What I suggested was to do it a bit better in the > future. Is that too much to ask for? > > > You're insane. Totally. > > I think you owe me an apology :-( I owe you nothing. From where I stand, I did nothing wrong. -- 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-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
