On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:04:17PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > Just wondering, I know that -next is failing right now, and is a major > > pain to produce, but that seems to be primarily due to all of the > > subsystems merging with Linus right now. > > > > So does it even make sense to try to create a -next during the 2 weeks > > of the major merge window? It seems to just cause you a whole lot of > > work, that in the end, is mostly unecessary as all of the subsystem > > maintainers are doing the merging themselves as trees move into Linus's > > tree? > > I don't know if it's worth the effort... > > However, we definitely missed linux-next during the last few weeks, seeing > things getting into mainline that don't even survive simple compile tests. Oh I agree, I missed it a lot the past few weeks, it's amazing how much we already started to rely on it in such a short time. That shows how valuable the effort is. Keep it up, I just don't want to see Stephen burn out during the pre-rc1 time period when it might not make as much sense to be trying to create the tree. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
