* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 15:44 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > This is certainly doable for agreeable features - which is the bulk > > - and it is being done. > > > > But this is a catch-22 for _controversial_ new features - which > > perfcounters clearly was, in case you turned off your lkml > > subscription ;-) > > I didn't :-) My point here is that Linus can make a decision with > an email -before- merging so that -next gets a chance, at least > for a couple of days, to do the integration testing once the > controversy has been sorted by his highness. Uhm, the bug you are making a big deal of would have been found and fixed by Paulus a few hours after any such mail - and probably by me too as i do daily cross builds to Power. So yes, we had a bug, but any extra linux-next hoops would not have prevented it: i could still have messed up by getting lured by that nice piece of Power7 hardware enablement patch on the last day ;-) So the bug was my fault for being too fast-and-loose with that particular patch, creating a ~5-commits-hop build breakage bisection window on Power. Now that i'm sufficiently chastised, can we now move on please? :) 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
