public inbox for linux-next@vger.kernel.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99•com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic•net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm•linux.org.uk>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical•com>,
	Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora•org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:55:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287507316.10071.9.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1010182227440.2764@xanadu.home>

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:47 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:
> 
> > I can say that I know for a fact that people don't read every patch, or
> > every email, or keep track of every single thread. I don't think it's
> > reasonable to expect people to do that. there's too many email, too many
> > threads, too many discussions etc ..
> 
> I'm not saying that you should keep track of every threads.  But you 
> should at least pay attention to what thread is being discussed, simply 
> by looking at the subject line.  Any good MUA will let you sort emails 
> and collapse them into thread view.  And scoring those incoming emails 
> with "arch/arm/mach-msm" for example is a quick way for you to be 
> noticed when a patch might be changing something in your area.  Tools 
> are there for you.

AFAIK before this thread, I should get CC'd when you modify me tree..
Maybe I'll setup some tools _now_ ..

> > This discussion isn't really about that. It's not about people reading
> > every single patch, which we know they don't do. This is about conflicts
> > in -next.
> 
> Glad to get back to the original issue.
> 
> > These patches caused conflicts in -next .. What more could I have done
> > to prevent conflicts coming from another tree and patches that appear
> > not to effect me? Even if I read all the patches, and threads, it still
> > seems unreasonable to expect maintainers to predict conflicts not coming
> > from their own tree's.
> 
> In this particular case, Stephen did fix the trivial merge conflict.  
> Most probably Linus could have done the same.  There is nothing you 
> needed to do in that case.  Or you could have waited until RMK's tree 
> hits mainline, then you merge that, fixing the issue within that merge, 
> before asking Linus to pull.
> 
> And if the merge in linux-next turned out not to be that trivial, or you 
> have new machine entries in your tree that failed to compile due to the 
> missing fixup, well that's fine too because that's _exactly_ what the 
> purpose of the linux-next tree is: finding issues like this before the 
> real merge in Linus' tree.  So in this case the system did work: the 
> conflict was identified by the tool and you were notified.
> 
> And the simplest solution to this is simply to merge your stuff into 
> RMK's tree in this case, so the generic change affecting all ARM 
> machines will cover yours as well.  Incidentally that's what has been 
> asked of you.
> 
> See?  Nothing to really get excited about.

Am I excited? Russell is the one getting excited .. I was the one trying
to correct the issues , so Linus doesn't have to deal with it.

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-17 23:35 linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree Stephen Rothwell
2010-10-18  0:02 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-10-18  8:15   ` Russell King
2010-10-18 17:26     ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 18:20       ` Russell King
2010-10-18 18:46         ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 19:29           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 20:12             ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 20:19               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 20:37                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 20:48                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 21:05                     ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 21:17                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 21:35                         ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 21:11                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 20:58               ` Russell King
2010-10-18 21:29                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 21:58                   ` Russell King
2010-10-18 22:27                     ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 22:35                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 22:53                         ` Joe Perches
2010-10-19 13:18                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 17:03                             ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-19 17:18                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-19 18:42                                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-19 18:53                                   ` Russell King
2010-10-19 19:24                                     ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-19 18:34                               ` Russell King
2010-10-19 18:49                                 ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 23:09                         ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 23:32                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-18 23:45                             ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-19  2:47                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-19 16:55                                 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2010-10-18 20:19             ` Daniel Walker
2010-10-18 20:57               ` Nicolas Pitre
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-31  6:08 Stephen Rothwell
2011-01-31  2:14 Stephen Rothwell
2011-01-31  2:14 Stephen Rothwell
2011-02-02 18:29 ` David Brown
2011-02-02 19:43   ` Greg KH
2011-02-02 20:00     ` Russell King
2011-02-02 20:32       ` Greg KH
2011-02-02 20:44         ` Russell King
2011-02-02 21:47           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-02 22:46             ` David Brown
2011-02-02 22:59             ` David Brown
2011-02-03  0:15               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-04 17:17             ` Daniel Walker
2011-02-04 17:42               ` Russell King
2011-02-04 18:02                 ` David Brown
2011-02-04 18:10                 ` Daniel Walker
2011-02-04 19:40               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-04 20:38                 ` David Brown
2010-05-04  1:07 Stephen Rothwell
2010-05-04 16:42 ` Daniel Walker
2010-05-04 21:26   ` Stephen Rothwell

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1287507316.10071.9.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com \
    --to=dwalker@fifo99$(echo .)com \
    --cc=jeremy.kerr@canonical$(echo .)com \
    --cc=johlstei@codeaurora$(echo .)org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-next@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=nico@fluxnic$(echo .)net \
    --cc=rmk@arm$(echo .)linux.org.uk \
    --cc=sfr@canb$(echo .)auug.org.au \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox