From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933805AbYD3Urw (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764245AbYD3UrH (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:07 -0400 Received: from colobus.isomerica.net ([216.93.242.10]:52251 "EHLO colobus.isomerica.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765375AbYD3UrF (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4818DAC4.0@isomerica.net> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:00 -0400 From: Dan Noe Organization: isomerica.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200804302136.58005.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080430131537.1f7a0914.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/30/2008 16:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> >> There should be nothing in 2.6.x-rc1 which wasn't in 2.6.x-mm1! > > The problem I see with both -mm and linux-next is that they tend to be > better at finding the "physical conflict" kind of issues (ie the merge > itself fails) than the "code looks ok but doesn't actually work" kind of > issue. > > Why? > > The tester base is simply too small. > > Now, if *that* could be improved, that would be wonderful, but I'm not > seeing it as very likely. Perhaps we should be clear and simple about what potential testers should be running at any given point in time. With -mm, linux-next, linux-2.6, etc, as a newcomer I find it difficult to know where my testing time and energy is best directed. Is linux-next the right thing to be running at this point? Is there a need for testing in a particular tree (netdev, x86, etc)? Cheers, Dan -- /--------------- - - - - - - | Dan Noe | http://isomerica.net/~dpn/