* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 23:10 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > To some extent, here, the issue is on Linus side and it's up to him (Hey > > Linus ! still listening ?) to maybe be more proactive at giving an ack > > or nack so that we can get a chance to do that final pass of ironing out > > the mechanical bugs before we hit the main tree. > > Let me add a little bit more background to my reasoning here and why I > think having this integration testing step is so valuable... > > It all boils down to bisection and having a bisectable tree. I think you are way too concentrated on this particular incident, and you are generalizing it into something that is not so in practice. Even in this particular case, there's just 3 other commit points in the Git tree between commit 8a1ca8c (the breakage on PowerPC) and e14112d (the fix). We'll have up to 10,000 commits. I bisect on an almost daily basis, and i'm not seeing unreasonable problems. Ingo -- 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
