Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:27:06 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] ARM MSM updates for 2.6.35-rc1 |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Don't forget about this one! Or was something wrong with it?
I got a bit frustrated with ten different ARM pulls per day at one point.
There's something wrong with ARM development. The amount of pure noise in the patches is incredibly annoying. Right now, ARM is already (despite me not reacting to some of the flood) 55% of all arch/ changes since 2.6.34, and it's all pointless churn in
arch/arm/configs/ arch/arm/mach-xyz arch/arm/plat-blah
and at a certain point in the merge window I simply could not find it in me to care about it any more.
Do you guys at all talk about this problem? Have any of the ARM people bothered to look at the arch/arm diffs and see how mind-deadening they are? I try to look through these kinds of things when I pull, but after a million lines of pure noise, it gets old pretty quickly.
Somehow, I can't believe that you need thousands of lines for each random arch/arm/mach-xyz (yeah, some very few of them are smaller).
For a taste of the mind-deadening experience, just do
for i in arch/arm/mach-* do echo $i; wc -l $(git ls-files $i) done | less -S
and imagine being on the receiving side of that.
Linus
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