From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tony Luck" Subject: Re: is the weeks before -rc1 the time to really be working on -next? Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:53:51 -0700 Message-ID: <12c511ca0810151653p535d5ae4j297cf5b41900a4ba@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081015145606.2af3baf1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081015233607.54c1d6b8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20081015155353.f15a996e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081015.160821.143702739.davem@davemloft.net> <20081015164139.ebcd24c6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:43461 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753783AbYJOXxx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:53:53 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so1388414nfc.21 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:53:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20081015164139.ebcd24c6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Miller , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, greg@kroah.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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