From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: Can you add the staging tree to -next? Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:36:42 +0100 Message-ID: <49230B3A.2000509@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <20081112235600.GA27554@kroah.com> <20081114173258.GC22980@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:36583 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751935AbYKRShD (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:37:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081114173258.GC22980@kroah.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Greg KH Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote on November 14: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:42:48AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> Apart from the patches you receive against -next, is there any other >> advantage, giving staging is disabled? > > That is a huge advantage, don't discount it. My staging tree has over > 150 patches in it right now, and is quite diverged from what is in > Linus's tree. I have been getting the same patches sent over and over > to fix the same thing that is already resolved in my tree, as the > developers are working against -next thinking that they were working > with the latest development tree. These people are missing that -next is not a development tree. (Unless final integration tests count still as development.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =-== =--=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/