[GIT PULL] DaVinci cleanups for v3.4
Nori, Sekhar
nsekhar at ti.com
Tue Feb 28 11:50:19 EST 2012
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 20:57:39, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2012, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
> > I guess the cleanest way to do that would have been to let
> > these patches go through my tree with appropriate maintainer
> > acks (but that obviously didn't happen - will try and fix
> > that for future). Per my understanding, it is encouraged that
> > a patch should get applied only through one tree, so I was
> > reluctant to apply them to any of the branches I send to you
> > after they were already in linux-next through other trees.
>
> That is correct, we generally try to avoid duplicating commits
> but instead use branches that are based on a common history
> containing whatever is needed in multiple places.
>
> Note that the patch I applied does not duplicate the ones that
> went into the other trees, it recreates dummy header files
> instead and needs to be reverted at some point in the future
> when everything has been merged.
Right. Thanks for taking care of this. Will send a revert once
the dependencies are upstream.
Thanks,
Sekhar
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