Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758205AbZAIV6A (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:58:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755644AbZAIV5s (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:57:48 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33589 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754388AbZAIV5r (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:57:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:56:54 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Alan Cox cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Phillip Lougher , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 In-Reply-To: <20090109120254.496f75d2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090109120254.496f75d2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 20 On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > > Of course, this assumes that someone will actually perform that testing > > and review. Chances are that it'll just sit there, getting nothing more > > than compilation testing. > > Almost every distribution ships the updated version and has done for ages > - exactly what kind of testing is going to beat that ? Yes, if this is really in use by everybody, then not merging it is kind of pointless. Linus -- 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/