Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests

Luis Chamberlain
2024-10-25T02:07:43Z

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 09:17:28PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Remember, this is talking about fixes after -rc1 not for things heading
> to the merge window. I find linux-next extremely useful for that work.
> But for fixes, what benefit is it to push to linux-next before sending
> to Linus a fix that adds a missing mutex_unlock() in the error path?

Yeah, sorry I did not get that context, in that case think the value is
more immediate than a round trip through 0-day given linus tree has
more immediacy for testing and value for fixes.

Luis