From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Rothwell Subject: Re: linux-next: ground rules Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:16:17 +1000 Message-ID: <20090815011617.bed3494e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> References: <20090814180246.9ac3e78e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <1250258173.4021.3.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Sat__15_Aug_2009_01_16_17_+1000_HIUhpIxmdDnP9JV6" Return-path: Received: from chilli.pcug.org.au ([203.10.76.44]:59310 "EHLO smtps.tip.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932508AbZHNPQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:16:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1250258173.4021.3.camel@mulgrave.site> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus --Signature=_Sat__15_Aug_2009_01_16_17_+1000_HIUhpIxmdDnP9JV6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > >=20 > > * successfully unit tested, and=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 :-(). --=20 Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ --Signature=_Sat__15_Aug_2009_01_16_17_+1000_HIUhpIxmdDnP9JV6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqFf8EACgkQjjKRsyhoI8y9twCfbQXqlp6MpCt3rRGIhyV4k4E0 V7UAoJell/QeJQIqYDnYpgRSo16cJzsJ =i3zz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sat__15_Aug_2009_01_16_17_+1000_HIUhpIxmdDnP9JV6--