From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA11572 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:26:28 -0700 From: willy@thepuffingroup.com Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:27:48 -0500 To: Philipp Rumpf Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Merge with Linus 2.3.99pre1 Message-ID: <20000316102748.D27942@thepuffingroup.com> References: <20000315140309.U27942@thepuffingroup.com> <20000316121525.H673@abacus.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000316121525.H673@abacus.local>; from Philipp Rumpf on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:15:25PM +0100 List-ID: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:15:25PM +0100, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:03:09PM -0500, willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote: > > Linus released 2.3.99pre1 today which marks the start of the 2.4 > > release effort. We'd like to merge Linus' changes into our tree on > > Friday, starting around 11am EST (8am PST, 4pm UTC, 5pm CET). > > I don't think merging with 2.3.99pre1 before verifying it works on at least > one other non-x86 architecture is a good idea. I'd also prefer it if someone > tried nfsroot aso with it before. It works on sparc (Josh Uziel has it running). Your point about trying nfs-root is a good one. I shall test that today. > Wouldn't it be a good idea to choose a kernel that has been released for more > than 2 days for merging ? By Friday it'll have been out for 4 days :-) If there's anything catastrophic, I think we would know by now. > > If you have any local changes which can go back into our tree, now would be a > > good time to commit them. > > I do, but am still waiting for reactions to the Assembly Language Changes > thread. i think that anyone who wants to object has had sufficient time to do so by now. > > If you're in the middle of something which > > will be disrupted by this, now would also be a good time to shout `STOP'. > > My changes can as easily be merged after we moved to 2.3.99pre1 as they can > now. I guess it's your call then.