Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:21:57 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Even so, it's easy, to I'll ask him to test 2.6.14, 2.6.14-git1, and > > (tonight's upcoming) 2.6.14-git2 (with my latest pull included) to see if > > anything breaks. > > Side note: one of the downsides of the new "merge lots of stuff early in > the development series" approach is that the first few daily snapshots end > up being _huge_. > > So the -git1 and -git2 patches are/will be very big indeed. > > For example, patch-2.6.14-git1 literally ended up being a megabyte > compressed. Right now my diff to 2.6.14 (after just two days) is 1.6MB > compressed. >
However there's usually little overlap between the subsystems trees - with a net update, a USB update, a SCSI update and an ia64 update it's usually pretty obvious which one caused a particular regression.
And given that the size of each individual subsystem update is unaltered, it doesn't really matter whether or not they all came on the same day.
The individual -mm-only patches tend to be more scattered around the tree, which is why I send them as batches of 100-200 every couple of days: to get a bit of separation in the -git snapshots. This hasn't actually proven to be very useful, though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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