Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932084AbWBFNbS (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:31:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932089AbWBFNbS (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:31:18 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.73]:31985 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932084AbWBFNbS (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:31:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <43E64791.8010302@namesys.com> <43E6521F.5020707@suse.com> <43E6BF48.5010301@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <96DB44F5-85D3-4F78-8417-D5AB9303D696@mac.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Mahoney , LKML , kernel-bugzilla@luksan.cjb.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: quality control Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:31:04 -0500 To: Andi Kleen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1272 Lines: 32 On Feb 06, 2006, at 06:09, Andi Kleen wrote: > Kyle Moffett writes: >> It's a GIT version of an RC patch for grief's sake! You don't >> seriously expect people to quadruple-check every trivial patch >> that goes into Linus GIT tree before sending it, do you? > > No quadruple check, but every patch going to Linus should get at > least some basic testing and it's definitely suppose to compile at > least in one .config combination. Well, yes, and it did. The problem was that if you turned off ACLs, it didn't work; only one or two variants of about 6 or 8 ways to configure reiserfs stopped working. Given that, I can't see how Hans is complaining about lack of QC. Nobody is going to test patches against every possible kernel configuration; that's why we do an RC, so that we can get a lot of different configs tested. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- I didn't say it would work as a defense, just that they can spin that out for years in court if it came to it. -- Rob Landley - 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/