On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0700, Jim Cromie wrote: > 3. Greg then > a. puts them here ?? (I dont see them) > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/ Close: kernel.org/pub/linuc/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/ Note that there is a lot of non-sensor stuff in there so you probably only care about: kernel.org/pub/linuc/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/i2c/ but not always. > b. pushes them to AKPM for inclusion in -mm No, Andrew picks them up from: kernel.org/pub/linuc/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-02-i2c/ which is the staging area for him. > does he consolidate them to 1 patch ? No. > I think not, that would lose the attributions > > > and this is where I get a bit fuzzy. I then push them to Linus when it's ok to do so, by taking the patches, creating a temporary git tree and asking Linus to pull it. I also post the patches that I'm asking Linus to pull to this list. > 2.6.15-mm1 came out recently > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/5/149 > > but none of the stuff in 2.a is there (I looked for mine). It takes a while to bubble up :) > Is that because theyre going to Linus / main / git instead ? > and if so (not going to -mm) why ? > dont they warrant more testing / exposure there ? If I've already sent the patches to Linus, and he's applied them, then they get into -mm with the "latest linus patch". Hope this helps, greg k-h
