On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> This is also a good time to warn about the fact that we're doing the x86

> merge very soon (as in the next day or two) after 2.6.23 is out, so if you

> have pending patches for the next series that touch arch/i386 or x86-64,

> you should get in touch with Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar, who are the

> keepers of the merge scripts, and will help you prepare..

>

> Doing it as early as possible in the 2.6.24-rc4 series (basically I'll do

> it first thing) will mean that we'll have the maximum amount of time to

> sort out any issues, and the thing is, Thomas and Ingo already have a tree

> ready to go, so people can check their work against that, and don't need

> to think that they have to do any fixups after it his *my* tree. It would

> be much better if everybody was just ready for it, and not taken by

> surprise.

>

> In other words, people who know they may be affected and would want to

> prepare can look at (for example)

>

> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git x86

>

> and generally get ready for the switch-over. 

I have uploaded an update of the arch/x86 tree based on -rc9 to
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git x86
For convenience there is a patch fixup script which helps you to

convert pending patches against this tree.
	http://userweb.kernel.org/~tglx/x86/x86-fixup-patches.py
It's generated from the merge script and fixes the namespace of

patches. There will still be some rejects which can not be fixed up

automatically, but this should be rare.
I did a test with Andrews -mm series and only ~10 arch/x86 related

patches had rejects, out of 230+ patches, so the 100%-painless

conversion ratio is better than 95%. Those patches with rejects were

trivial to fix.
Usage: x86-fixup-patches.py sourcepatch destpatch
source and dest can be the same.
A helper script to convert complete quilt series is here:

	http://userweb.kernel.org/~tglx/x86/fixupseries.sh
If there is anything we can help with the transition, please do not

hesitate to ask.
Thanks,
	Thomas, Ingo

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