Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:05:18 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-mm2: alpha broken |
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:10:54AM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: > Adrian wrote: > > This is the amout of testing I can afford. > > It sounds to me like you are saying that a minute of your time is > more valuable than a minute of each of several other peoples time. > > The only two people I gladly accept that argument from are Linus > and Andrew. > > For the rest of us, it is important to minimize the total workload > of all us combined, not to optimize our individual output. > > What you don't test, several others of us get to test. Only its often > more work, for -each- of us, as we each have to figure out which of > 1000 patches caused the breakage.
I'm working against -mm, and there it's quite common that the kernel doesn't build on the majority of architectures due to one or two dozen bugs other people introduced.
I didn't know people consider the quality of my patches so under-average that they want to require me to fix other people's compile errors first and test the compilation on all 24 architectures before I'm allowed to submit a patch that touches some architecture-independend code.
cu Adrian
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