Re: [PATCH 0/8] AMD opteron mm config numa etc

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

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

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:37:52 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > Note: Andrew might get grumpy when 
> > your PCI tree starts changing nearby places in arch/x86/pci again and it 
> > clashes with these changes in x86.git
> 
> s/Andrew/Stephen/I hope/;)/
> 
> Hopefully we can soon start feeding these more problematic trees into 
> linux-next and yes, Stephen will need some more thought/support from 
> his upstreams to make that viable.

btw., the correct metric would be "real user-side regressions per 
commit" (maybe real regressions per line of code changed), not "number 
of commits". With the latter metric, x86.git is "problematic". For the 
former, it's much less so ;-)

i.e. you should punish buggy trees that affect real testers out there, 
not high-flux trees that by virtue of their flux cause more integration 
work.

	Ingo