Re: linux-next: Tree for June 5

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > most of the -tip topics (there are 75 of them currently) are present 
> > in linux-next - about ~70% of all -tip commits are in linux-next 
> > already. The stuff that is not in linux-next yet is either because 
> > it's: miscellany fixes (i.e. intentionally grabbed out-of-tree to 
> > make our tests work better), not cooked enough yet, or because we 
> > are still working it out - tip is less than a month old still.
> > 
> > in general the rule is that if there's anything we want to push 
> > upstream, it will show up in linux-next.
> 
> I don't think it's a good idea for you guys to be off working on 
> 2.6.28 material when we're trying to stabilise 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and 
> preparing for 2.6.27.
> 
> What's especially regrettable is that, afaik, you are expending 
> testing resources on a tree which nobody will ever run rather than 
> upon the tree which everyone _will_ run :( [...]

what do you mean? We are testing commits that everybody will run and are 
pre-filtering them for sanity and stability before they hit linux-next.

	Ingo