Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:12:13 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: [PANIC] ohci1394 & copy large files |
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On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:07:56AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 09:17, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Because the fix was pretty extensive and needed testing. It was > > potentially more broken that the problem it was fixing. Sending untested > > patches to Linus is far worse than batching a few up and pushing to him. > > Ok, makes sense, it wasn't just a 1-liner quick fix then ;) > > Still, from my experience, _very few_ people actually test things in > trees like ieee1394, fbdev, etc... Even my tree isn't what it used > to be for pmacs now that I'm fully in sync upstream. > > Even -mm lately haven't been as tested as it used to be (possibly > because of upstream getting better). I find it's quite ok to send > a fix that needs a bit more testing to a Linus -rc1 (but not later),
People that experience problems that I have a fix for in the repo, usually get pointed to that repo for testing.
In this case I did the fix after -rc2, wasn't comfortable enough to send it for -rc3 and I think I may wait for 2.6.6-rc1 since there's a harder to reproduce bug now that I have to fix (I haven't seen it, but a few people that tested our repo have reported it).
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