Re: quality control

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Feb 06, 2006, at 06:09, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> writes:
>> It's a GIT version of an RC patch for grief's sake!  You don't  
>> seriously expect people to quadruple-check every trivial patch  
>> that goes into Linus GIT tree before sending it, do you?
>
> No quadruple check, but every patch going to Linus should get at  
> least some basic testing and it's definitely suppose to compile at  
> least in one .config combination.

Well, yes, and it did.  The problem was that if you turned off ACLs,  
it didn't work; only one or two variants of about 6 or 8 ways to  
configure reiserfs stopped working.  Given that, I can't see how Hans  
is complaining about lack of QC.  Nobody is going to test patches  
against every possible kernel configuration; that's why we do an RC,  
so that we can get a lot of different configs tested.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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