Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932302AbWBFT1f (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:27:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932309AbWBFT1f (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:27:35 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34231 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932302AbWBFT1e (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:27:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:27:21 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Andi Kleen Cc: Kyle Moffett , Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Mahoney , LKML , kernel-bugzilla@luksan.cjb.net Subject: Re: quality control Message-ID: <20060206192721.GA8600@suse.de> References: <43E64791.8010302@namesys.com> <43E6521F.5020707@suse.com> <43E6BF48.5010301@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1067 Lines: 26 On Mon, Feb 06, 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. Right. We have now git-bisect, and it helped me to nail down a few bugs. Just now I track down some scsi or whatever breakage in -rc1. And guess what, not a single compile error so far, with a full featured config! So you guys better send tested patches, via akpm, to keep Linus tree in a reasonable shape. -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan - 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/