[Ksummit-2011-discuss] experience with the new arm-soc workflow (Was: Re: ARM Maintainers workshop at Kernel Summit) 2011

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Tue Aug 9 11:34:18 EDT 2011


On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:07:42AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Where a clean up goes should be more about why the clean up is
> happening. If it is just a clean up for the sake of cleaning up, then a
> separate branch is suitable. But if a clean up is there to pave the way
> for new features, then that clean up should be with the features it
> allows to provide.

Though one of the frequent consequences of any widespread cleanup is
that it ends up touching lots of places and consequently colliding with
other work.



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