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Message-Id: <20081118084757.5c92c878.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:47:57 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: procedures
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:38:07 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
...
> The following will cause a tree to be temporarily dropped from linux-next:
> - non-trivial conflicts with Linus' tree
> - build failures
Hi Stephen,
One clarification, please.
Does this mean build failures that _you_ see/experience during tree merging
and not other reported build failures?
Thanks,
~Randy
> - non-obvious conflicts with other trees (this will require
> us to come up with some way forward for the trees involved)
> - the contact for the tree being unresponsive
>
> Most conflicts will be notified to the contacts for the trees involved
> (some really trivial ones will not). Simple conflicts between trees I
> will try to fix up (if possible) and carry such resolutions as necessary.
>
> I will not, any more, carry fix up patches to make linux-next build or
> boot. If a tree is identified as causing such a problem, it will be
> dropped until the problem is fixed.
>
> This is all open to discussion ...
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