Re: linux-next: Tree for July 14

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jul 14 2008 - 13:12:59 EST


On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:12:49 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With the opening of the merge window, I am hoping my job becomes easier
> again ... :-)

If past experience is a guide, it's about to get harder because

a) maintainers jam untested crap^W^Wrecently-received features into
their trees so they don't miss the merge window and

b) a storm of git rejects turn up as Linus's tree starts to get changed.

Hopefully b) will improve, as "all" the new code has already gone
through linux-next merging.

As for a), well, it would be nice if people were to be careful about
that sort of thing. In some ways it's justifiable - we _do_ have a
couple months to fix remaining glitches. But one would think that when
fast-tracking new features, the code would at least get additional
review and testing to make up for it.
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