Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:48:46 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) |
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Greg KH wrote: > A lot of time that already happens today, between the different > subsystem maintainers. We routinely pass PCI and driver core changes > through the network and scsi and ata trees in order to handle merge > issues properly. This already happened in a few places in the > 2.6.25-rc1 merge cycle.
Yep. I do that with the powerpc tree sometimes, too: I'll ACK a drivers/net change that is obviously PPC-specific, and that drivers/net change will go in via paulus.
Like you said, it's done on a per-patch not git tree basis at the moment.
That sort of cooperation has become common: in areas of shared responsibility, request an ack, and then the "most obvious" person (generally the one with most merge dependencies) merges that shared-responsibility change along with some other changes specific to their own tree.
Jeff
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