Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:09:41 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attachedPHYs) |
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David Lang wrote: > Stefan, > we are supposed to be on a 2-month release cycle, with all major > changes going in in the first two weeks of that cycle. This timeframe > doesn't leave you any noticable time to implement your steps seperatly > (and zero testing between them). as a result, in practice your proposal > amounts to a big-bang approach, and/or results in releases that are > known-broken.
Experimental branches of subsystems usually cannot (nor need to) be bound to a release cycle.
> and while you suggest putting this in -mm, remember that the -mm kernel > needs to be useable so that people can test it, and it is on the same > schedule as the main kernel so again you can't have known-broken things > (of this scale) there either.
I assumed there would be a few unmaintained bits (of marginal "scale") left which could not be updated, but it seems now that won't be the case. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=-= =-=- ==--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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