From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: is the weeks before -rc1 the time to really be working on -next? Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:30:38 -0700 Message-ID: <20081015203038.GA14959@kroah.com> References: <20081015174015.GB8663@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:41732 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752367AbYJOUdx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:33:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:04:17PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > Just wondering, I know that -next is failing right now, and is a major > > pain to produce, but that seems to be primarily due to all of the > > subsystems merging with Linus right now. > > > > So does it even make sense to try to create a -next during the 2 weeks > > of the major merge window? It seems to just cause you a whole lot of > > work, that in the end, is mostly unecessary as all of the subsystem > > maintainers are doing the merging themselves as trees move into Linus's > > tree? > > I don't know if it's worth the effort... > > However, we definitely missed linux-next during the last few weeks, seeing > things getting into mainline that don't even survive simple compile tests. Oh I agree, I missed it a lot the past few weeks, it's amazing how much we already started to rely on it in such a short time. That shows how valuable the effort is. Keep it up, I just don't want to see Stephen burn out during the pre-rc1 time period when it might not make as much sense to be trying to create the tree. thanks, greg k-h