Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:04:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] kgdb fixes for 2.6.34-rc2 |
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Jason Wessel wrote: > > Ping. > > Linus, please help me understand how we can continue to move forward on > the kernel debugger pull requests. There have been numerous requests > that have not been pulled and have no response as to what needs to be > acted on to resolve any outstanding issues.
I've been swamped and bad, and since I wrote another email to explain why I'm always so grumpy (unrelated thread, nothing to do with kgdb), I'll cut-and-paste some of the relevant explanation for my pulling (or not pulling, as in this case) here too..
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Even on the merging side, what ends up happening is that some trees I decide I can't afford to merge, simply because the potential pain of merging without knowing the code is too high. So I can merge a new filesystem without any issues - if it's buggy, all I need to know is "new filesystem craps out". But when it comes to core generic code that anybody can hit, I have to _rely_ on submaintainers doing the right thing.
And when that doesn't work out, and stuff falls through the cracks, I'm kind of screwed. And this looked like a "fall through the cracks" thing.
[ I skipped the kdb merge this window, for example, and I feel bad about that, and will have to walk over the pull request with a comb once the merge window fallout calms down, so that I can do it the next merge window. Not because I need to understand each line, but because I need to understand what the potential bigger-picture impacts are when something that looks odd pops up ]
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and obviously one of the issues is that I end up always prioritizing my pulls etc, and because I'm not a huge fan of debuggers (understatement of the year), that pull request was always at the bottom of the pile. And this merge window I ended up having some Intel event things that took up a good chunk of the window, so I never did get to that bottom.
Usually things calm down for me at around -rc4, when it turns into a waiting game instead of fighting fires. So I'm expecting to do that "look things over" this weekend or next week.
Linus
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