linux-kernel - Re: is the weeks before -rc1 the time to really be working on -next?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0810152202230.25933@anakin>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:04:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is the weeks before -rc1 the time to really be working on -next?

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

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