[ added Stephen to CC ] On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, James Bottomley wrote: > Well, the fact that the compile failure wasn't detected before it went > upstream should answer that ... > > But to be more specific: linux-next is our integration tree (and also > the obscure architecture compile tree). To ensure the best possible > integration, every tree should be built and tested in linux-next at > least once before it goes to Linus. There were originally technical > reasons why -mm wasn't in ... I just thought they'd been fixed by now. /me checks ... Yes, it indeed is that way -- Andew pulls whole linux-next as one of the patches into -mm series. To make linux-next really working the way it is intended to work we need to have -mm part of it, as it is used as a last point for a non-trivial amount of patches before they enter Linus' tree. Andrew, why do we have the current setup, and not the other way around? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
