Subject: Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
       Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
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On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 15:49 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 23:10 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > To some extent, here, the issue is on Linus side and it's up to him (Hey
> > > Linus ! still listening ?) to maybe be more proactive at giving an ack
> > > or nack so that we can get a chance to do that final pass of ironing out
> > > the mechanical bugs before we hit the main tree.
> > 
> > Let me add a little bit more background to my reasoning here and why I
> > think having this integration testing step is so valuable...
> > 
> > It all boils down to bisection and having a bisectable tree.
> 
> I think you are way too concentrated on this particular incident, 
> and you are generalizing it into something that is not so in 
> practice.

Maybe. But maybe it's representative... so far in this merge window,
100% of the powerpc build and runtime breakage upstream comes from stuff
that didn't get into -next before.

Some of the runtime breakage in powerpc-next comes from my own bugs,
indeed, and fortunately I caught it before I asked Linus to pull.

Cheers,
Ben.


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