linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libsrp: fix compile failure

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 13:35:55 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libsrp: fix compile failure

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:12:26 +0100 (CET)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:

> 
> [ added Stephen to CC ]
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > Well, the fact that the compile failure wasn't detected before it went 
> > upstream should answer that ...
> > 
> > But to be more specific: linux-next is our integration tree (and also
> > the obscure architecture compile tree).  To ensure the best possible
> > integration, every tree should be built and tested in linux-next at
> > least once before it goes to Linus.  There were originally technical
> > reasons why -mm wasn't in ... I just thought they'd been fixed by now.
> 
> /me checks ...
> 
> Yes, it indeed is that way -- Andew pulls whole linux-next as one of the 
> patches into -mm series.
> 
> To make linux-next really working the way it is intended to work we need 
> to have -mm part of it, as it is used as a last point for a non-trivial 
> amount of patches before they enter Linus' tree.
> 
> Andrew, why do we have the current setup, and not the other way around?
> 

Because I suck.  I haven't yet got around to feeding -mm into
linux-next.  It's a bit tricky, because -mm is based on linux-next. 
Probably we'll address this by adding a "linux-next before the mm bits"
marker to linux-next.

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