Subject: Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12]
	x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)
From: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <200708130808.46989.a1426z@gawab.com>
References: <200708130808.46989.a1426z@gawab.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:40:06 -0600
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On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:08 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
> > >=20
> > > This does make me wonder, why these weren't caught in -mm ?
> >=20
> > I'm worried that -mm isn't getting a lot of exposure these days. People=
 do=20
> > run it, but I wonder how many..
>=20
> Well, I'm not running it because it's got too much garbage in it, which m=
akes=20
> it a pretty unrealistic testbed.  And to make matters worse, I also stay=20
> away from rc's as a consequence.
>=20
> To make -mm more viable, it may be advisable to restructure -mm in such a=
 way=20
> as to be a Kconfig option to mainline.  This would probably involve some=20
> patch management functionality to apply experimental submissions on a=20
> per-patch basis, as opposed to being a 'take it or leave it slam onto=20
> mainline' patch.

I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou
ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other things.  I run it, anyway.

http://klive.cpushare.com/
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Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>

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