“Following the release of the 2.6.20 kernel Andrew Morton posted
a list of patches in his -mm kernel, summarizing for each his plans
as to whether or not they will be pushed upstream for inclusion in
the upcoming 2.6.21 kernel. Andrew commented, ‘I’m getting fed up
of holding onto hundreds of patches against subsystem trees,
sending them over and over again and seeing nothing happen. I sent
242 patches out to subsystem maintainers on Monday and look at
what’s still here.’ In response to some confusion as to what
happens to these patches, he went on explain, ‘once a subsystem has
a subsystem tree (git or quilt) I basically never merge anything
which belongs to that tree. It’s always
originator->mm->subsystemtree->Linus…'”