Subject: Re: is the weeks before -rc1 the time to really be working on -next?

From: "Tony Luck" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:53:51 -0700

> Yes, but then people would end up being based on linux-next, and that's
> a pretty rubbery target with all the rebasing and trees getting
> dropped, etc.  And they'd accidentally end up having to actually
> compile and run linux-next, shock-horror-oh-the-humanity.

I built and booted linux-next a couple of times a week or so
for ia64.  Most of the time it worked just fine.  I found a few
build problems, but only three run-time problems. My boot
log shows 49 successful boots of linux-next based kernels
from 2.6.25-rc2 to 2.6.27-rc6

But perhaps less people are working on breaking ia64 :-)

-Tony