linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

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Date:	Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:19:58 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	paulus@...ba.org, ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure


> Uhm, the bug you are making a big deal of would have been found and 
> fixed by Paulus a few hours after any such mail - and probably by me 
> too as i do daily cross builds to Power.
> 
> So yes, we had a bug, but any extra linux-next hoops would not have 
> prevented it: i could still have messed up by getting lured by that 
> nice piece of Power7 hardware enablement patch on the last day ;-)
> 
> So the bug was my fault for being too fast-and-loose with that 
> particular patch, creating a ~5-commits-hop build breakage bisection 
> window on Power.
> 
> Now that i'm sufficiently chastised, can we now move on please? :)

Sure we can :-) My point is, get a break before you merge upstream :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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