On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:45:34 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

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> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:40:54 -0700
> 
> > By keeping all this code out of -mm you haven't solved any of the
> > merge/integration problems which we had in 2.6.24-rcX.
> 
> I think things would have been a lot easier if you had adopted
> basing -mm on top of linux-next from the very start.

linux-next ramped up across the 2.6.25-rc window and I wanted to give it
some time to see how it would pan out.

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> The responsiveness to problems and merge hassles has been so much
> superior and efficient from the linux-next folks for my networking
> stuff, for example.  It's never been like that with -mm.

I don't know what you mena by this.  But linux-next integrates only the
other subsystem trees and they have rarely caused me integration problems
against git-net.  
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