From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264923AbTLRDfg (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:35:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264925AbTLRDfg (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:35:36 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:7583 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264923AbTLRDff (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:35:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:36:00 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Thomas Molina Cc: smiler@lanil.mine.nu, andrew@walrond.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test11-mm1 Message-Id: <20031217193600.1139f7c0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20031217014350.028460b2.akpm@osdl.org> <200312171037.16969.andrew@walrond.org> <3FE039F5.5030703@lanil.mine.nu> <20031217035105.3c0bd533.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Molina wrote: > > Quite frankly I am becoming concerned about the number of patches that are > queued for post 2.6.0. It is beginning to look like 2.6.0 might be nice > and quiet while 2.6.1+ are going to be quite messy as all the things "on > hold" get put in. Well, most of these things do address real problems. It's a matter of feeding them in at an appropriate rate and with a higher level of testing. > I'm going to do my part by pounding heavily on -mm kernels since that > appears where all this is ending up. That would be useful. Testing on non-ia32 platforms remains a concern. I test on ia64 and ppc64, but I'm not aware of anyone regularly testing -mm things on other architectures.