linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

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Date:   Wed, 9 May 2018 18:03:46 +0900
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "w@....eu" <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 10:47:57AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > I think this is an excellent idea, copying in Stephen for his input.
> > I'm currently on holiday but unless someone convinces me it's a terrible
> > idea I'm willing to at least give it a go on a trial basis once I'm back
> > home.

> Since Stephen merges all -fixes branches first, before merging all the
> -next branches, he already generates that as part of linux-next. All
> he'd need to do is push that intermediate state out to some
> linux-fixes branch for consumption by test bots.

True.  It's currently only those -fixes branches that people have asked
him to merge separately which isn't as big a proportion of trees as have
them (perhaps fortunately given people's enthusiasm for fixes branches
that don't merge cleanly with their development branches) so we'd also
need to encourage people to add them separately.

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