Re: [git pull] Fixes to 2.6.30rc2

[Eric Anholt]

On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:47 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 01:59 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:49:59 -0700
> >>
> >> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel drm-intel-next
> >>
> >> Eric, any plans to ever push your work through David Airlie's DRM
> >> tree?  I've been watching this for a few weeks and I'm mystified why
> >> the Intel DRM drier stuff is so special that is always goes seperate.
> >>
> >> It's seems foolish for David to manage the infrastructure and core DRM
> >> changes, as well as those for radeon and the other drivers other than
> >> Intel, which could potentially cause merge issues and conflicts with
> >> your driver changes.
> >>
> >> Why not do Intel DRM driver development via his tree?  I just don't
> >> get it. :-/
> >
> > Inside of the merge window, I am going through Dave again because he
> > requested it (though delays meant that I didn't get a major cleanup in
> > this merge window).  However, Dave is also quite busy, and not stealing
> > his time every few days to pull my tree for just forwarding bugfixes on
> > seems to be a win.
> 
> btw which cleanup, I seem to remember it arriving after the merge
> window had opened.
> 
> The theory is the code was in my tree before Linus opened the window
> or it doesn't
> get 

Yeah, it was early merge window iirc, the mechanical
drm_malloc/drm_calloc/drm_free nuke.  It really needs to die.  In a
fire.

-- 
Eric Anholt
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