linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the sound-asoc tree

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Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:11:23 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the sound-asoc tree

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 07:46:31AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Then you need to have a different branch being tested by Fenguang and
> friends to what you have in linux-next.   The stuff that you put into
> linux-next has to be at least build tested, so you should delay pushing
> it up to your linux-next included branch until after that is done.

Which is what I was doing, as I said I had thought I'd pushed up
something different to what was actually there.

> This case was particularly irritating because you were the developer of
> the patch that was broken which indicates that you are not even testing
> your own development work before pushing it out for others to work on top
> of.

I don't treat my own patches any differently to any other patches I push
out; in this case the issue was a mistaken fix for a merge issue cherry
picking the code out of a working branch into the public branch.  

With a huge chunk of new device enablement like this it's just not
possible to do anything except build testing on the branches in -next,
there'll be at least some cross tree issues getting in the way of
actually running anything.  At that point all the issues with time spent
doing build tests apply; as I keep saying I will tend to do some if I
have time but it can fall by the wayside and they're not the tests
anyone else does.

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