From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:16:00 +0100 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:16:00 +0100 > On Monday 14 December 2009 07:41:24 pm David Miller wrote: >> That's not true. I use "gitk -- net/mac80211" all the time and it's >> helped me find bugs. Or try "gitk -- include/tcp* net/ipv4/tcp*" to >> hunt down TCP regressions, etc. > > It helps but with more complex ones you're back to guesswork and applying > by hand fixes for already fixed ages ago in-the-middle regressions. Examples? > commit d7fc02c7bae7b1cf69269992cf880a43a350cdaa > Merge: ee1262d 28b4d5c > Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Dec 8 07:55:01 2009 -0800 > > Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 > > * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1815 commits) > > with completely insane amount of changes: > > 1396 files changed, 113877 insertions(+), 71108 deletions(-) > > You may say that I should be following the development as it happens but such > strict requirement is not present in any other kernel subsystem tree. About 1400 is drivers/net and about 500 is net It's going to be a lot of changes no matter how I or John split it up. And guess what's just-as if not even more important? A unified tree makes things easier for me. So unless you plan on applying 100 patches a day for me and doing all the cross merges, that's how I plan to keep doing things :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
