Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:49:25 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: New (now current development process) |
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--Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote (on Monday, October 31, 2005 00:18:10 +0000):
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:45:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: >> The problem is that -mm* contains typically so many more or less >> broken changes that any extensive work on there is futile >> because you never know whose bugs you're debugging >> (and if the patch that is broken will even make it anywhere) >> >> In short mainline is frozen too long and -mm* is too unstable. > > Besides, -mm is changing so fscking fast that it doesn't build on a lot > of configs most of the time. And trying to keep track of it and at least > deal with build breakage at real time is, IME, hopeless.
To be fair, it's been a lot better the last month than it has the 2 before that, when it was really pretty scary.
If it helps, we can try to build a wider range of configs to test. And I can try to hook Andrew up with something he can do a quick compile-farm test on before release (though I think he has his own battery of stuff).
M.
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