From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12618 invoked by alias); 16 Apr 2012 18:11:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 12606 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Apr 2012 18:11:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from toast.topped-with-meat.com (HELO topped-with-meat.com) (204.197.218.159) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:11:10 +0000 Received: by topped-with-meat.com (Postfix, from userid 5281) id 1F3AE2C09F; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:11:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Mike Frysinger Cc: libc-ports@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: move from main tree In-Reply-To: Mike Frysinger's message of Monday, 16 April 2012 14:04:20 -0400 <201204161404.21458.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <1334543837-828-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <20120416165353.485442C099@topped-with-meat.com> <201204161404.21458.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-Id: <20120416181108.1F3AE2C09F@topped-with-meat.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:11:00 -0000 X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=e8d9udV/ c=1 sm=1 a=qvEn9-8k8mEA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=cFvyNzJCIuAAF_t-9asA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=WkljmVdYkabdwxfqvArNOQ==:117 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 > i couldn't tell if people would be ok merging code that is known to be broken. Since it's not regressing the status quo, it's not really a problem. > i could break up this commit into multiple ones (original code + mangling > afterwards), but really none of it would be usable until all of it was merged. Sure. We just want to be able to distinguish old code from new changes easily. Thanks, Roland