Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

Ingo Molnar
2009-06-12T14:11:44Z

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 15:49 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 23:10 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > > To some extent, here, the issue is on Linus side and it's up to him (Hey
> > > > Linus ! still listening ?) to maybe be more proactive at giving an ack
> > > > or nack so that we can get a chance to do that final pass of ironing out
> > > > the mechanical bugs before we hit the main tree.
> > >
> > > Let me add a little bit more background to my reasoning here and why I
> > > think having this integration testing step is so valuable...
> > >
> > > It all boils down to bisection and having a bisectable tree.
> >
> > I think you are way too concentrated on this particular incident,
> > and you are generalizing it into something that is not so in
> > practice.
>
> Maybe. But maybe it's representative... so far in this merge
> window, 100% of the powerpc build and runtime breakage upstream
> comes from stuff that didn't get into -next before.

But that's axiomatic, isnt it? linux-next build-tests PowerPC as the
first in the row of tests - so no change that was in linux-next can
ever cause a build failure on PowerPC, right?

Ingo