Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932684AbVJ2WWg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:22:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932644AbVJ2WWg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:22:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:51402 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932502AbVJ2WWf (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:22:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:21:57 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates Message-Id: <20051029152157.01369c35.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20051029182228.GA14495@havoc.gtf.org> <20051029121454.5d27aecb.akpm@osdl.org> <4363CB60.2000201@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1523 Lines: 37 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Even so, it's easy, to I'll ask him to test 2.6.14, 2.6.14-git1, and > > (tonight's upcoming) 2.6.14-git2 (with my latest pull included) to see if > > anything breaks. > > Side note: one of the downsides of the new "merge lots of stuff early in > the development series" approach is that the first few daily snapshots end > up being _huge_. > > So the -git1 and -git2 patches are/will be very big indeed. > > For example, patch-2.6.14-git1 literally ended up being a megabyte > compressed. Right now my diff to 2.6.14 (after just two days) is 1.6MB > compressed. > However there's usually little overlap between the subsystems trees - with a net update, a USB update, a SCSI update and an ia64 update it's usually pretty obvious which one caused a particular regression. And given that the size of each individual subsystem update is unaltered, it doesn't really matter whether or not they all came on the same day. The individual -mm-only patches tend to be more scattered around the tree, which is why I send them as batches of 100-200 every couple of days: to get a bit of separation in the -git snapshots. This hasn't actually proven to be very useful, though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/