[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] stable kernel stuff and grumpy maintainers

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:25:56AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> I've attached the version of the script I use, it's based on an old
> script from Andrew Morton that he used to use (odds are he's fixed up
> that old one to be a bit more recent.)  It relies on the different
> naming scheme I use for my git branches (work-next for what to merge to
> the next branch, and work-linus for what to merge to the "Linus"
> branch), but you should get the general idea from it.

We should really have some central place to develop tooling like this
rather than passing things about by hand, at least for the people who
don't want to code up their own stuff.  I'm not sure if it's best to do
that in the kernel tree or if a separate place would make sense.