Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:48:36 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.3-1 out - merge window closed |
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:14:52 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi all, > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:58:28 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > (Stats for those that like them: 20% arch updates (arm, power, mips, > > x86), 60% drivers (networking - wireless in particular, staging, > > media, dri, sound, misc - including getting rid of 'struct sysdev'), > > and 20% random stuff: filesystems, networking, perf etc) > > More stats for the bored: > > (I don't count merge commits below and everything is relative to v3.2) > > Of the 8899 commits in v3.3-rc1, 6918 were in next-20120106 (the first > -next based on v3.2). A further 792 commits have the same subject line as > commits in next-20120116 and a further 16 have the same patch-id. > > This leaves 1174 commits (13%) in v3.3-rc1 that were not in next-20120106 > for some reason (not too bad really, I guess).
That's a lot. Please name names!
I was impacted by several busted patches which had not appeared in -next.
Also, I saw numerous patches which were significantly altered during their trip from -next to mainline, which is cheating. These showed up as a massive reject storm when I attempted to git-merge linus-now with next-from-12-hours-ago. I went in and checked. tools/perf was a major culprit.
> Some will clearly be bug > fixes, of course. Some will be quilt trees (probably rebased before > being sent to Linus). Some will be patches that depend on work by others.
The quilt trees would have been eliminated by the "commits have the same subject line" test?
I don't think this is all a huuuge problem - we sort this stuff out fairly quickly. But things could be improved a bit.
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