Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:10:05 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: circumvention and ignorance (was: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 22) |
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:49:30 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi all, > > Looking at today's http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/matrix/, there's > plenty of red, and not only in the linux-next division :-( > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > We are up to 105 trees (counting Linus' and 14 trees of patches pending for > > Linus' tree), more are welcome (even if they are currently empty). > > Thanks to those who have contributed, and to those who haven't, please do. > > We still see regular merging of trivially breaking patches that > apparently never have been in linux-next... > > > The ttydev tree was partially merged upstream and gained so many > > conflicts that I have temporarily dropped it. > > Worse, we're seeing things getting merged that have been known-broken in > several linux-next incarnations during the last few weeks... > > Now we have such a great thing like linux-next (thanks, Stephen! You > saved my day a lot lately), perhaps we should start making full use of > it?
E.g., we don't seem to have a good method of moving build fixes into their appropriate tree/patchset. Or maybe it's just that we can't get them noticed by the appropriate people.
--- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/
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