git help needed for 2.6.34 kernel branch revival

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 18:01, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for the advice. This is effectively the "399 patches" approach
>> I mentioned.
>
> Yes indeed. I couldn't tell if you knew about using format-patch and
> am separately -
>
>> For the 2.6.31 to 2.6.34 move, no rebasing happened. The 2.6.34 kernel
>> tree was simply merged into the 2.6.31.6 + olpc tree.
>> I think this was a mistake, given that 2.6.34 doesn't logically follow
>> on from 2.6.31.6.
>
> Yeah. Ugly mistake.
>
>>  And we should put more effort into upstreaming so that the
>> amount of rebasing work is not so great each time.
>
> Always true. Helps when you have a kernel hacker around. We've lost ours :-/
>
> Any kernel hacker reading this should look at:
> http://www.laptop.org/en/utility/people/opportunities.shtml ...

Considered asking Corbet to put some kind of plug in LWN?

May also help attending any of the several kernel
conf/summit/gettogethers around Boston.

Regards,

Tomeu

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