On Wed, Feb 02 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

The actual problem here is that some people, notably the msm folks, are 
bypassing the maintainer hierarchy and going straight to Linus for their 
pull requests instead of asking RMK to pull.  We once debated this at 
some point and it was agreed that completely independent SOC specific 
code with no dependencies on the common ARM code _could_ go straight to 
Linus directly if they crave for it.

I also have no real problem sending pull requests to RMK instead of
Linus, as long as it isn't a pain.  Linus gives clear directions as to
how his tree works, and when he expects what kinds of pull requests.
Weird web-based patch tracking systems are a pain.  Pull requests from
git with a fairly easy way to know when they've been pulled are not.

I also find that http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/ is frequently
inaccessable, and usually slow.

As it stands, so far, it's been a lot less work for me to send directly
to Linus, and resolve the issues that come up when they do.

David

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