From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755937AbYGVXtw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:49:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753629AbYGVXtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:49:43 -0400 Received: from harold.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.133.65]:54879 "EHLO harold.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753161AbYGVXtm (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:49:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:49:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Stephen Rothwell , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: linux-next: circumvention and ignorance (was: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 22) In-Reply-To: <20080722184059.a58c79d7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Message-ID: References: <20080722184059.a58c79d7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, Looking at today's http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/matrix/, there's plenty of red, and not only in the linux-next division :-( On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > We are up to 105 trees (counting Linus' and 14 trees of patches pending for > Linus' tree), more are welcome (even if they are currently empty). > Thanks to those who have contributed, and to those who haven't, please do. We still see regular merging of trivially breaking patches that apparently never have been in linux-next... > The ttydev tree was partially merged upstream and gained so many > conflicts that I have temporarily dropped it. Worse, we're seeing things getting merged that have been known-broken in several linux-next incarnations during the last few weeks... Now we have such a great thing like linux-next (thanks, Stephen! You saved my day a lot lately), perhaps we should start making full use of it? Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds