Re: linux-next: Tree for June 5

Ingo Molnar
2008-06-06T08:50:22Z

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > most of the -tip topics (there are 75 of them currently) are present
> > in linux-next - about ~70% of all -tip commits are in linux-next
> > already. The stuff that is not in linux-next yet is either because
> > it's: miscellany fixes (i.e. intentionally grabbed out-of-tree to
> > make our tests work better), not cooked enough yet, or because we
> > are still working it out - tip is less than a month old still.
> >
> > in general the rule is that if there's anything we want to push
> > upstream, it will show up in linux-next.
>
> I don't think it's a good idea for you guys to be off working on
> 2.6.28 material when we're trying to stabilise 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and
> preparing for 2.6.27.
>
> What's especially regrettable is that, afaik, you are expending
> testing resources on a tree which nobody will ever run rather than
> upon the tree which everyone _will_ run :( [...]

what do you mean? We are testing commits that everybody will run and are
pre-filtering them for sanity and stability before they hit linux-next.

Ingo