curious about BK checkin protocol

Matt Porter mporter at kernel.crashing.org
Thu May 27 03:35:21 EST 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:19:53AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Matt Porter wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:12:10AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   i thought it had been well-established by now that this had to go.
> > > what's the protocol for someone putting these changes into the tree?
> > > just curious.
> >
> > Post a patch.  If it's something that is incorrect in linux-2.5
> > as well, then the patch is expected to be against linux-2.5.
>
> post to this list?  sure, if that's the right place.  the only reason i'm
> obsessed about that little fix as opposed to all the others that are going

Yes, post to this list for embedded-specific patches (8xx). If
it's a clear fix, somebody will put it into linux-2.5 and it
will be pulled into linuxppc-2.5 on the next merge. Put [PATCH]
in the subject and mention what BK tree it's made against.

Let me say this again, but a bit clearer so that _everybody_
understands.  A patch is the standard unit of communication here.
If you don't post a patch that represents your ideas or proposed
fixes, your thoughts are likely to get lost in all the noise on
these lists.

-Matt

** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/





More information about the Linuxppc-embedded mailing list