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SubjectRe: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)
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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/
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Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
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