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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:12:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180918161200.GL2471@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1bm8urker.fsf@oracle.com>

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 09:43:08AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

> 1. I could just always revert instead of dropping the patches. The
>    downside is that we end up with a pretty messy history because, as I
>    pointed out above, it's usually a matter of dropping tens of patches
>    at a time and not reverting a single offending commit. In addition,
>    having a messy history makes it harder on distro kernel people to
>    track driver updates.

I used to deal with this by using topic branches heavily and making my
-next be an automated merge of those branches, if something went badly I
could just throw away the branch.  I stopped for a while because Linus
didn't like the number of branches I was creating, though it wasn't a
problem with the approach in general.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-18 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-05 10:13 James Bottomley
2018-09-05 11:37 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 15:03   ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-05 15:50     ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-05 16:20       ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-05 16:45         ` James Bottomley
2018-09-05 17:00           ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-05 19:25           ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 19:40             ` James Bottomley
2018-09-06 19:54               ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-18 13:43                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-09-18 14:12                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-18 15:01                     ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-09-18 15:27                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-18 15:34                         ` Jens Axboe
2018-09-18 17:08                         ` Mark Brown
2018-09-18 16:12                   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2018-09-18 20:20                     ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-19  0:08                       ` Mark Brown
2018-09-18 20:37                   ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-19  6:16                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-19  6:31                       ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-19  9:23                         ` Jan Kara
2018-09-19  9:27                           ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 13:16 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 13:20   ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 13:39   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-05 15:16     ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 16:44     ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-05 20:15       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-05 20:36         ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-07 20:24         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-05 17:41 ` Laura Abbott

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