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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] for_each_zone / for_each_pgdat
    On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:00:36AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
    > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
    >
    > > No matter how much someone can go through their own code and say "it's
    > > ready" there's always a good chance there is some bug that will trigger
    > > under testing. Also, Andrew found a problem with your locking changes when
    > > he split up your patch, and at the time you were saying it is ready and
    > > there were no bug reports against in...
    >
    > If you are going to reject code from people who send in code which turns
    > out to have bugs you are going to have a VERY small set of submitters.

    No that's not what I was saying.

    > It's good to have someone else read the code, for breakup or whatever, but
    > to avoid cleanup in a stable kernel seems long term the wrong direction.
    >

    Exactly. I'm just saying that you will get more eyes on the code and less
    possible detrimental impact (if any, which I doubt) if the patches don't all
    go into one set of -pre patches but spread out over a few releases
    (2.4.19,20 and possibly 21). The -pre kernels get testing, but not nearly
    as much as the releases do. Test the -pre and -rc kernels as much as
    possible, but also know that something might be flushed out by some people
    that only use the released kernels (non -pre or -rc).

    Mike
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