linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Oct 25

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Message-ID: <20131026165937.GA6362@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:59:37 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Oct 25

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:31:44PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> That's unfortunate.  The fixes should be part of the tree IMO.

What Stephen does (which does seem like a good policy) is to keep the
tree at the previous day's version instead of taking a new version if it
introduces breakages on the architectures he tests.  That seems to
strike a good balance between keeping things working for users and
providing pushback to get things fixed before they go to Linus.

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