Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Adrian Bunk
2008-02-13T17:24:38Z

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:46:51PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>...
> > AFAICS, we are in situation when review bandwidth is where the bottleneck
> > is. Not the merge one...
>
> Are there still large numbers of posted patches, not reviewed or picked
> up by anyone laying around somewhere? I thought Andrew-the-patch-vacuum
> had been doing a great job of keeping that from happening lately.

I wrote in one of the many bug reports I sent for compile errors
introduced in Linus' tree during this merge window:

An architecture specific patch that breaks the one architecture it
touches at the first file being compiled is even for kernel standards
unusually bad...

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

cu
Adrian

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