From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nivedita Singhvi Subject: Re: Please route new work through -mm tree? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:58:55 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <415B220F.4040102@us.ibm.com> References: <1096481023.8636.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <415AFB63.7010107@us.ibm.com> <20040929132247.227fffcd.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20040929132247.227fffcd.davem@davemloft.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > Nivedita, it was you specifically who complained to me > when I used a seperate BK tree for networking changes > last month whilst Linus was away for 2 weeks. You said "complained" ? no, no, honestly, it was just a very polite inquiry :) :) > And I have to warn people if they think that the churn is fast > and the rate of change in the networking is high right now, you > have seen absolutely nothing yet. :-) yep, this is to some extent driving this, and things like picking up the tso patches where we needed to test prior to you checking them in. Sure, we'd benefit from having fewer trees to test, and since the -mm tree is already getting tested and consuming the hw resources, we'd have benefited from having the networking tree go into -mm. Hence my previous inquiry to see if you could go through -mm. If you're feeding to Linus immediately, then we could just as well test mainline. There is a need to have mainline stable, but that can be solved by stretching out the bk snapshots and increasing the number of rc releases so mainline releases are fairly stable (something Andrew Morton mentioned yesterday). That has been a separate ongoing discussion among a lot of people. Your point about there being a lot of other stuff in -mm and it not being stable is taken, and it would be nice to have a networking contained tree. Which brings us to having your interim bk tree available to test - which would be fine with me :) What we're setting up is throwing the nightly release onto 2 big boxes and running some heavy duty networking stress tests. All in the spirit of wanting to be helpful, honestly :). Any suggestions welcome.. thanks, Nivedita