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Re: + wireless-fix-iwlwifi-unify-init-driver-flow.patch added to -mm tree

From
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date
May 14, 2008, 12:34 UTC
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<20080514123432.GB3349@tuxdriver.com>
In-Reply-To
<20080513.221529.20855966.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:15:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> I used to play this game, it's a lot of work and it sucks.  One
> "drib" can require fixing up 200 patches down the chain.  And
> I've had this happen to me all the time in the past when I was
> rebasing all the time.
I have to agree with Dave.

Moreover, I used to get regular complaints about the old "regular rebase" process. We switched to a "pull and merge" process for 2.6.25, and in that period nearly all of the process-related complaints disappeared for me.

To some degree this is a "pick your poison" issue, and for most people rebasing seems like the deadlier poison.

John
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John W. Linville
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  1. Andrew MortonMay 14, 2008
  2. David MillerMay 14, 2008
  3. John W. LinvilleMay 14, 2008
  4. Andrew MortonMay 14, 2008

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