[PATCH v2 06/17] ARM: dma-mapping: fix for speculative accesses

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> > I want to help with that testing, is there any git tree where I can
> > pull the code from?
> 
> There isn't, because apparantly under git rules, as soon as I publish it
> in git form it must be fixed.  So I'm keeping the stuff private and only
> issuing patches on this mailing list.

I think you should be perfectly fine publishing some Git branches with 
the explicit indication that such branches are unstable and volatile.  
After all that's exactly what the high profile linux-next repository is 
about, and everyone should know already that basing any work on top of 
linux-next is a good way to screw oneself.  And even then there is 'git 
rebase' to let you move your stuff onto a stable base if needed.

A very few individuals apparently have difficulties with the distinction 
between a stable and an unstable Git branch which should be their own 
problem.  That shouldn't prevent the rest of the world from using Git in 
such a way.  Even Linus is not against a daily rebasing linux-next.

You still can expand your Git branch namespace for clarity.  Branches 
such as those are quite unambiguous:

	unstable/wip/dma_mapping_v1
	unstable/wip/dma_mapping_v2

Etc.


Nicolas