[PATCH 1/1] edac: new ppc4xx driver module

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Feb 10 08:01:19 EST 2009


On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:49:47AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:40:41 -0800
>Grant Erickson <gerickson at nuovations.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/30/09 2:05 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:54:42 -0700 dougthompson at xmission.com wrote:
>> >> From: Grant Erickson <gerickson at nuovations.com>
>> > 
>> > Perhaps a powerpc mailing list should have been cc'ed?
>> 
>> The first round patch went to Doug, the BlueSmoke (EDAC) mailing list and
>> the Linux/PowerPC mailing list. However, because the original patch was
>> split in two, subsequent revisions of just the EDAC piece went to Doug and
>> BlueSmoke. Doug then forwarded it to linux-kernel.
>> 
>> What's the preferred sign-off, ACK chain for this subsystem? Through
>> PowerPC/4xx or PowerPC GIT upstream or through you and -mm upstream?
>
>I don't trust those guys ;)

I might take offense to that, but it seems that there aren't too many people
in general that you trust, so I guess that's fine. ;)

(And while you may or may not be joking, if there's something that I've done
to be considered not trustworthy then please let me know.)

>I'd merge it via -mm, while cc'ing various random powerpc personalities.

Erm, ok.  Since there doesn't appear to be an EDAC git tree for -next I
guess that makes sense.  I'll try to review the most recent version in the
next few days.

josh



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