linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

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Message-ID: <CAKMK7uEWYmhA3owSeYM9tNA0tpMm5=4Yqda2j=VfMWi7i8ya8w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 May 2018 10:47:57 +0200
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "w@....eu" <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 04:21:26PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>
>> Then, why don't we have a pre-integration tree for fixes? That would
>> at least simply automated testing of fixes separately from new
>> material.
>
>> Perhaps this has already been discussed, and concluded and it's not
>> worth it, then apologize for my ignorance.
>
> I think this is an excellent idea, copying in Stephen for his input.
> I'm currently on holiday but unless someone convinces me it's a terrible
> idea I'm willing to at least give it a go on a trial basis once I'm back
> home.

Since Stephen merges all -fixes branches first, before merging all the
-next branches, he already generates that as part of linux-next. All
he'd need to do is push that intermediate state out to some
linux-fixes branch for consumption by test bots.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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