Re: [linux-sh:02046] Re: [linuxsh-dev] Drop-In tree updates

[Robert L. <rm...@te...>]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 23:11, Tom Rini wrote:

> I hate to say it, but just because you send things to Linus, doesn't
> mean they get in.  While it is important to try, it's just as important
> to have a good public tree that does work on an arch.  If things
> actually got in for SH around 2.4.13 (I don't remember all of the
> changes in those pre-patches) SH is actually pretty well off in this
> regard.  Maybe Marcelo will be better about it, but it'll still take
> time for everything to settle down..

Sadly true.  However, I think we could convince him to merge something
now in 2.5.

As for 2.4, I already asked Marcelo if he would take a merge.  He will.

> Just my two cents, what's worked well for PPC so far is having a tree
> that the active and knowledge able people can write to, keeping it close
> to kernel.org, and frequent patchbombing of Linus.  We've also got a
> list for commit msgs, and with verbose comments (and followups) everyone
> usually knows what's going on.

PPC is very well up-to-date in the official tree, and I think that is a
good thing.  Good job.

	Robert Love