From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754660AbYJOUE3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:04:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751799AbYJOUEV (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:04:21 -0400 Received: from edna.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.58]:53792 "EHLO edna.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751507AbYJOUEV (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:04:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:04:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Greg KH cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is the weeks before -rc1 the time to really be working on -next? In-Reply-To: <20081015174015.GB8663@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <20081015174015.GB8663@kroah.com> 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 On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Greg KH wrote: > Just wondering, I know that -next is failing right now, and is a major > pain to produce, but that seems to be primarily due to all of the > subsystems merging with Linus right now. > > So does it even make sense to try to create a -next during the 2 weeks > of the major merge window? It seems to just cause you a whole lot of > work, that in the end, is mostly unecessary as all of the subsystem > maintainers are doing the merging themselves as trees move into Linus's > tree? I don't know if it's worth the effort... However, we definitely missed linux-next during the last few weeks, seeing things getting into mainline that don't even survive simple compile tests. 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