Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans

Ingo Molnar
2009-01-05T12:32:34Z

* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:10:06 +0100
>
> > That is quite backwards, no matter how i look at it. Why doesnt Sparc do
> > the obvious and turn off -Werror until it has gotten around to fix those
> > few remaining warnings?
>
> Are you kidding me?
>
> -Werror has been on for 5+ years under arch/sparc, and the tree in those
> subdirectories always built warning free.
>
> For crying out loud, Sam and I are asking for a few days to freshen up
> these patches so they build properly. What is the big deal?
>
> The changes will go in, probably within the next week, just give us a
> chance to fix them up.
>
> I really can't believe what a big stink is being made in response to an
> arch maintainer and one of his helpers wanting to clean up a patch
> before it gets integrated.

I'm glad that things are accelerating that it will only take a few days
now. Your earlier reaction of asking Andrew to remove it from -mm gave me
the opposite impression - your reactions made it seem as if you saw it the
duty of Sam to fix any problems with this patch.

Thanks,

Ingo