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From: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, greg@kroah.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is the weeks before -rc1 the time to really be working on -next?
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:53:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12c511ca0810151653p535d5ae4j297cf5b41900a4ba@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081015164139.ebcd24c6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> Yes, but then people would end up being based on linux-next, and that's
> a pretty rubbery target with all the rebasing and trees getting
> dropped, etc.  And they'd accidentally end up having to actually
> compile and run linux-next, shock-horror-oh-the-humanity.

I built and booted linux-next a couple of times a week or so
for ia64.  Most of the time it worked just fine.  I found a few
build problems, but only three run-time problems. My boot
log shows 49 successful boots of linux-next based kernels
from 2.6.25-rc2 to 2.6.27-rc6

But perhaps less people are working on breaking ia64 :-)

-Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 17:40 is the weeks before -rc1 the time to really be working on -next? Greg KH
2008-10-15 20:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-15 20:30   ` Greg KH
2008-10-15 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-15 22:08   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-15 22:36   ` Alan Cox
2008-10-15 22:53     ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-15 23:08       ` David Miller
2008-10-15 23:41         ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-15 23:53           ` Tony Luck [this message]
2008-10-15 23:56           ` David Miller

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