Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761529AbYBMCJF (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:09:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754112AbYBMCIx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:08:53 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:45684 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754027AbYBMCIw (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:08:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:06:13 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , bfields@fieldses.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) Message-Id: <20080212180613.a1a07264.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080212.165014.01238510.davem@davemloft.net> <20080212.173817.111913348.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1313 Lines: 29 On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:57:19 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote: > - and you actually can help fix your issues by doing some simple things > *before* pushing out, rather than push out immediately. IOW, do your > whitespace sanity fixes, your compile checks etc early, and don't push > out until after you've done them. > One of the things which linux-next could/should do is to help weed out the silly build breaks, typos, missing documentation updates, missed checkpatch opportunities, etc, etc. As well as real bugs. So it would not be efficient for David to do all this queue-cleaning *prior* to putting the tree into linux-next, because more stuff will pop up anyway. So perhaps a better workflow would be keep the linux-next trees all messy, and then each developer can consolidate, rebase, join and drop things prior to sending their individual trees to Linus. If so, then git could perhaps help, by retaining sufficient metadata for the maintainer to track the fact that this-patch-here fixes that-patch-there. -- 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/