From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: Please route new work through -mm tree? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:19:47 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040929131947.03c3e9e5.davem@redhat.com> References: <1096481023.8636.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <1096481023.8636.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:03:43 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > There is lots of stuff going on that has a potential to make things less > stable. How about routing any future TCP, fib, statistics, stuff through > Andrew's tree and not directly to Linus. That way we have some buffer > and can stablize some more. Alternatively, Dave you could publize your > staging area some more. I'm not changing how I do things because: 1) Putting the net stuff into -mm makes debugging of networking changes harder, as -mm has a ton of experimental stuff in it as well. -mm frequently makes machines unbootable, and particularly this is felt on non-x86 platforms such as sparc64 which is where I do all of my work. 2) I am more than happy to post the location of my net-2.6 tree but last time I used this actively (whilst Linus was away for 2 weeks) the IBM folks complained that this gave them too many trees to work from. Furthermore, I've never put any change into my tree that I didn't think was ready for upstream. When I post something here before pushing to Linus, that's the chance for folks to test things out.