Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:33:17 +1000 |
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> Ah - thanks. The bug was caused by me being a bit too optimistic in > applying the shiny-new Power7 support patches on the last day. (nice > CPU btw.)
In that case paulus tells me it's actually Peter screwing up moving something from the powerpc code to generic :-)
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> Such bugs happen, and they are easy enough to fix. What matters > arent the 1-2 short-lived bugs that do happen when a new combination > of trees is created, but the long-lived combination bugs and > conflicts.
I'm not saying -next would fix world hunger ... but in this case we have two sets of issues, perfctr and the init ordering change which both got merged totally bypassing -next... We should at least -try- to follow the process we've defined, don't you think ?
Cheers, Ben.
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