Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
 > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:08 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
 > > Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > > > 
 > > > > This does make me wonder, why these weren't caught in -mm ?
 > > > 
 > > > I'm worried that -mm isn't getting a lot of exposure these days. People do 
 > > > run it, but I wonder how many..
 > > 
 > > Well, I'm not running it because it's got too much garbage in it, which makes 
 > > it a pretty unrealistic testbed.  And to make matters worse, I also stay 
 > > away from rc's as a consequence.
 > > 
 > > To make -mm more viable, it may be advisable to restructure -mm in such a way 
 > > as to be a Kconfig option to mainline.  This would probably involve some 
 > > patch management functionality to apply experimental submissions on a 
 > > per-patch basis, as opposed to being a 'take it or leave it slam onto 
 > > mainline' patch.
 > 
 > I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou
 > ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other things.  I run it, anyway.
 > 
 > http://klive.cpushare.com/

If that's the case, there are 3 people running 2.6.23-rc2-mm2.
I suspect the actual number of users is considerably higher.
Somehow I doubt that 'most' people are running klive.

	Dave

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