From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: linux-next: ground rules Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:19:03 +0000 Message-ID: <1250263143.4021.14.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <20090814180246.9ac3e78e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <1250258173.4021.3.camel@mulgrave.site> <20090815011617.bed3494e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:37801 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932508AbZHNPTH (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:19:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090815011617.bed3494e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 01:16 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi James, > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:56:13 -0500 James Bottomley wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 18:02 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > > > > * successfully unit tested, and > > > > The rest are fine, but this one isn't feasible for a driver tree ... I > > don't have all the hardware, and people will insist on fixing > > theoretical bugs in drivers we can't test on. > > > > A lot of time, bugs turn up in this code only after it has been on > > release for several months and the small pool of HW owners actually gets > > around to testing it. > > > > Additionally, I have to carry patches on trust for HW I'm never likely > > to see outside someones multi-million dollar lab. > > OK, in the context of linux-next, "successfully unit tested" to me means > that it doesn't break on "reasonable" builds (i.e. x86(_64) allmodconfig > or something similar) and probably won't break if someone tries to use > it. Clearly, you are correct, you can't test everything. I guess I just > want to be able to be justifiably annoyed if my builds break for > something obvious (which does happen from time to time :-(). OK, so I can do compile tested for almost everything except s390 drivers ... James