linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

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Message-ID: <4AFC26AF.8050609@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:15:59 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

On 11/11/2009 11:45 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> That's already possible via the git-commits-head@...r.kernel.org email 
> list. Anyone can subscribe to it and can procmail process it. It is also 
> more secure (and less intrusive to the tree owner) than any post-push 
> hook script running under the pusher's UID. Polling via cron is really 
> not required i think.
> 

There are a couple of disadvantages with this -- a hera -> vger -> hera
bounce, in particular (those two machines are nowhere close to each
other, and there can be huge latecy.)  For real-time robots running on
hera, a lower-latency mechanism would be useful.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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