Re: New (now current development process)

Andi Kleen
2005-10-30T23:47:16Z

On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:32, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> I thought Andrew was accepting patches targeted at 2.6.n+1 into the
> -mm tree during the freeze periods, yes? If so, why would it be a
> case of "nothing much happens"? Nothing much might be happening in
> Linus's git tree, but that doesn't that they can't be happening in
> Andrew's -mm patchsets....

The problem is that -mm* contains typically so many more or less
broken changes that any extensive work on there is futile
because you never know whose bugs you're debugging
(and if the patch that is broken will even make it anywhere)

In short mainline is frozen too long and -mm* is too unstable.

-Andi