Re: linux-next: Tree for March 6

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 01:47:36 EST


Hi Andrew,

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:24:50 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:13:11 +1100
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dropped trees (temporary):
> > rr (build problem)
>
> It's quite irritating and somewhat risky when this happens. It means
> that I have to teporarily drop or rework patches to fix things up.
> Then the patch needs to be undropped or unreworked when the offending
> tree gets restored.
>
> Is it possible to just drop back to the previous day's version when
> something gets screwed up?

I will try this and see how hard it is. I have done a few today with no
ill effects (that I have seen yet).

The other side of the coin is that there are some dependencies between
some of the trees that are included in linux-next.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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