Re: New (now current development process)

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 19:18:22 EST


On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:45:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> The problem is that -mm* contains typically so many more or less
> broken changes that any extensive work on there is futile
> because you never know whose bugs you're debugging
> (and if the patch that is broken will even make it anywhere)
>
> In short mainline is frozen too long and -mm* is too unstable.

Besides, -mm is changing so fscking fast that it doesn't build on a lot
of configs most of the time. And trying to keep track of it and at least
deal with build breakage at real time is, IME, hopeless.
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