Re: Linux 3.2-rc1

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 06:10:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So it's been two weeks since 3.1, and you know how it works by now.
> 
> I have to say, this wasn't my favorite merge window ever. I really
> wanted to take only things that had been in -next, but verifying it
> was fairly painful, since a lot of the trees had been rebased, and the
> ones that hadn't been rebased often had some extra patches that still
> showed up when I did my "git log linux-next..FETCH_HEAD" thing.
> 
> On the whole, most of it was all good, and I didn't really end up
> complaining to people. I'm pretty sure that there were trees I
> shouldn't have let through, but the majority really had been in -next.
> 
> The other point of irritation was that there really was a lot of stuff
> that came in yesterday and basically treated the merge window as some
> kind of high-tech limbo dance. If it hadn't been for a few trees I
> wanted to pull, I had actually planned to do the -rc1 release Sunday
> afternoon instead, just to cut those annoying last-minute pull
> requests off.
> 
> And some trees didn't get pulled. You know who you are, and you can
> try to appeal to my softer side if you think it was unfair. Of course,
> if you *do* find my softer side, please tell my wife and kids too,
> they'll be thrilled.

/me searches for the softer side.

> 
> But the main reason some trees didn't get pulled was that they
> generated long flame-wars, and I just felt like I really didn't need
> the aggravation this time around, especially as I knew I had plenty
> other trees to pull.

Is there a reason that the ktest tree didn't get pulled? Is it because
it is not in next (nor has it ever been). I could arrange to put it
there, but as it is a simple tool in the tools directory I didn't think
it required the next processing. But I could update that if so desired.

There hasn't been any flame wars on ktest either, so that could not be
it. Maybe I could start a flame war with myself to get it more
attention.


Anyway, the pull request is here, hopefully that softside exists.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/28/97

Thanks!

-- Steve

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