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Message-Id: <1244799197.7172.106.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:33:17 +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


> Ah - thanks. The bug was caused by me being a bit too optimistic in 
> applying the shiny-new Power7 support patches on the last day. (nice 
> CPU btw.)

In that case paulus tells me it's actually Peter screwing up moving
something from the powerpc code to generic :-)

 .../...

> Such bugs happen, and they are easy enough to fix. What matters 
> arent the 1-2 short-lived bugs that do happen when a new combination 
> of trees is created, but the long-lived combination bugs and 
> conflicts.

I'm not saying -next would fix world hunger ... but in this case we have
two sets of issues, perfctr and the init ordering change which both got
merged totally bypassing -next... We should at least -try- to follow the
process we've defined, don't you think ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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