Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD) | From | Zan Lynx <> | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:40:06 -0600 |
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On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:08 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > > This does make me wonder, why these weren't caught in -mm ? > > > > I'm worried that -mm isn't getting a lot of exposure these days. People do > > run it, but I wonder how many.. > > Well, I'm not running it because it's got too much garbage in it, which makes > it a pretty unrealistic testbed. And to make matters worse, I also stay > away from rc's as a consequence. > > To make -mm more viable, it may be advisable to restructure -mm in such a way > as to be a Kconfig option to mainline. This would probably involve some > patch management functionality to apply experimental submissions on a > per-patch basis, as opposed to being a 'take it or leave it slam onto > mainline' patch.
I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other things. I run it, anyway.
http://klive.cpushare.com/ -- Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |