[GIT PULL] Samsung devel for v3.3

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Mon Jan 9 18:24:56 EST 2012


On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 09:58:39AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 08:49:53PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > That'd be extremely disappointing, especially given that there's some
> > bug fixes in there for updates going in this merge window without which
> > mainline is going to have problems on s3c64xx (mostly the GPIO stuff).

> Here we go again with sucky work practices.

> This sucky behaviour has been around for a long time, I've long since
> given up complaining about it as it's exactly like talking to a bloody
> brick wall.  People just continue mixing development and fixes together.

Actually in this case the issue is slightly different - the fixes are
mostly fixes for issues introduced by other development going in during
this merge window, what's gone wrong is that they've been applied to a
different branch to that which had the problem.  Still an issue of
course, just a different one.

That said there's also an issue if pure development gets delayed - it
makes it harder to do further work based on top of the work that got
delayed, especially if any cross tree issues come into play.

> Note: Linus _has_ taken a copy of linux-next (read the 3.2 release email),
> and _is_ checking whether development stuff was in linux-next prior to
> the merge window opening.  It would be very unwise to send new development
> which wasn't already there.

That's not an issue here, all the stuff that's being discussed is in
-next but not sent to the arm-soc tree.



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