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Message-Id: <20101005174524.b62d14a1.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:45:24 +1100
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the lost-spurious-irq tree with the
tip tree
Hi Ingo,
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:32:27 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> Please send irq merge requests to Thomas instead and wait for those
> genirq bits to show up upstream. (You did so in the past and the review
> process was ongoing AFAICS)
>
> Otherwise we would be dilluting linux-next testing with random side
> effects from a tree that wasnt yet (in that form) scheduled to go
> upstream by its respective maintainer at that time.
>
> We were lucky that this showed up as merge complications - what if
> instead it merged 'fine' on the textual and build/boot level but
> mis-merged on the functional level in subtle ways? Thomas would be
> sending something to Linus that was never really tested in linux-next in
> that form, caused problems upstream, and Linus would be rightfully upset
> about the situation.
>
> Stephen, you need to enforce such things ...
At the time that this tree was added to linux-next (in July), I responded
to Tejun like this:
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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: "linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: please pull in from lost-spurious-irq branch
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:35:09 +1000
Hi Tejun,
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:50:55 +0200 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> If possible, can you please pull the following branch into linux-next?
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git lost-spurious-irq
>
> It's scheduled to go through tip/genirq, so once it shows up in tip,
> the above branch can be dropped from linux-next. As the merge window
> is closing in, I'm hoping to get it tested enough in linux-next. The
> branch is based on rc3 but merges without conflict into the current
> mainline.
OK, added from today. I'll keep an eye out for it in the tip tree.
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Not sure what I can do beyond making sure that all relevant people are
informed about what trees are being merged. There is a certain amount of
good faith involved in all our development processes.
In any case, it will be dropped tomorrow.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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