Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932373AbVJ3Wpj (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:45:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932378AbVJ3Wpj (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:45:39 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:35598 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932373AbVJ3Wpj (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:45:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:45:25 +0000 From: Russell King To: Andrew Morton Cc: ak@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, tony.luck@gmail.com, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New (now current development process) Message-ID: <20051030224524.GG2846@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , ak@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, tony.luck@gmail.com, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <12c511ca0510291157u5557b6b1x85a47311f0e16436@mail.gmail.com> <20051029195115.GD14039@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051029223723.GJ14039@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051030111241.74c5b1a6.akpm@osdl.org> <20051030214309.GE2846@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051030143103.17f2835c.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051030143103.17f2835c.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1902 Lines: 47 On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:31:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Russell King wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:12:41AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Russell King wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > > > > I don't think anybody has been really unhappy with this approach? Hmm? > > > > > > > > > > The long freeze periods were nothing much happens are painful. It > > > > > would be better to have some more overlap of merging and stabilizing > > > > > (stable does that already kind of, but not enough) > > > > > > > > Violently agree. I find the long freeze periods painful and very very > > > > very boring, to the point of looking for other stuff to do (such as > > > > cleaning up bits of the kernel and queuing mega-patches for the next > > > > round of merging.) > > > > > > The freezes are for fixing bugs, especially recent regressions. > > > > Given my stated low activity during the -rc periods, well, you draw > > your conclusion from that. > > > > > There's no shortage of them, you know. > > > > Please let me know when there's something in my area regresses. > > > > a) you're sitting around feeling very very very bored while > > b) the kernel is in long freeze due to the lack of kernel developer > attention to known bugs > > The solution seems fairly obvious to me? That's fine if you have the hardware to be able to debug these issues. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/