[openib-general] Re: [git pull] InfiniBand fixes for 2.6.14

[Roland Dreier]

    Greg> I didn't think that git pulls were going to be allowed from
    Greg> subsystem maintainers after -rc1 came out.  After that,
    Greg> patches by email were required to be sent, not git pulls.
    Greg> This does cause a bit more work for the maintainer, but it
    Greg> ensures that they only send the patches they really want to
    Greg> get in.

I specifically asked Linus about this a couple of weeks ago, and he
said that bug-fix-only git merges are file.  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/13/277

 - R.