Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760264AbXFSRCT (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:02:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756811AbXFSRCJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:02:09 -0400 Received: from barikada.upol.cz ([158.194.242.200]:36307 "EHLO barikada.upol.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757239AbXFSRCI (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:02:08 -0400 To: Stefan Richter Cc: Adrian Bunk , Martin Bligh , Natalie Protasevich , "Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" , Andrew Morton , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Michal Piotrowski , Andi Kleen , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?]. In-Reply-To: <4677F15D.6000903@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <4675C083.6080409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070617220927.99ebc1ee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <32209efe0706181531x5322533dr31dc90e6dd8c7973@mail.gmail.com> <46770A22.4020007@mbligh.org> <32209efe0706181556l2ed378f4sf520c3852f398fa4@mail.gmail.com> <46771C5D.10809@mbligh.org> <20070619124855.GB12950@stusta.de> <20070619140512.GA19904@flower.upol.cz> <4677F15D.6000903@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics department. User-Agent: jed (x86_64-pc-linux-glibc-debian) X-Mailer: slrn Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:14:39 +0200 Message-Id: From: Oleg Verych Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1596 Lines: 34 * Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:08:13 +0200 > >> Crazy development{0}. Somebody knows, that comprehensively testing >> hibernation is their thing. I don't care about it, i care about foo, bar. >> Thus i can apply for example lguest patches and implement and test new >> asm-offset replacement, *easily*. > > That's right. But the production of subsystem test patchkits is > volunteer work which will be hard to unify. > > I'm not saying it's impossible to reach some degree of organized > production of test patchkits; after all we already have some > standardization regarding patch submission which is volunteer work too. But still there's no one opinion about against what tree to base the patch. For somebody it's Linus's mainline, for somebody it's bleeding edge -mm. And there will be no one. Thus, particular patch entry might have as -mm as Linus's re-based versions or (as Adrian noted) VFS.asof02-07-2007 FANCYFS. For example, Rusty did that, after somebody asked him to have not only -mm lguest version. So, for really intrusive feature/patch (and not in-middle-development, Adrian) author can have a version (with git branch, patch directory or something). Counter-example: Scheduler patches are extraordinary with large threads or replies, but that is (one of) classical release-early and often. Proposed bureaucracy doesn't apply ;) ____ - 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/