Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753219AbZKLPQ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:16:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753185AbZKLPQ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:16:58 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53901 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753072AbZKLPQ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:16:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4AFC26AF.8050609@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:15:59 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Linus Torvalds , James Bottomley , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question References: <20091110034831.GB26809@elte.hu> <20091110041452.GA25575@suse.de> <1257863388.4184.220.camel@mulgrave.site> <20091110193747.GB12686@suse.de> <1257965424.11985.9.camel@mulgrave.site> <1257970010.11985.17.camel@mulgrave.site> <4AFB301C.3050800@zytor.com> <20091112074531.GA16434@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20091112074531.GA16434@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 991 Lines: 25 On 11/11/2009 11:45 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > That's already possible via the git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org email > list. Anyone can subscribe to it and can procmail process it. It is also > more secure (and less intrusive to the tree owner) than any post-push > hook script running under the pusher's UID. Polling via cron is really > not required i think. > There are a couple of disadvantages with this -- a hera -> vger -> hera bounce, in particular (those two machines are nowhere close to each other, and there can be huge latecy.) For real-time robots running on hera, a lower-latency mechanism would be useful. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/