[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] maintainer hierarchy vs. the release process

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 14:53 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:44:01AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > One major advantage is that it forces us to write a general description
> > for each topic.  This is pretty simple with a smallish number of
> > patches, but for a single x86 pull request it would be meaningless.
> > 
> > I understand Linus' normal workflow is to pull in the x86 pull requests
> > (minus any he might reject) and then do testing on the whole thing, though.
> 
> While x86 may merit that level of special attention, I suspect that
> many other arches or random features would not.
> 

I would assume that networking would be a prime example of a tree that
could be broken up into several smaller ones. Smaller branches that is.

-- Steve