Re: [PATCH] libsrp: fix compile failure

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Jan 04 2010 - 16:12:38 EST



[ 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.
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