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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail•com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-next@vger•kernel.org,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg•org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net>
Subject: linux-next fixes
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 10:36:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131101093638.GE27864@ulmo.nvidia.com> (raw)

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Hi Stephen,

There have been some discussions lately revolving around the topic of
linux-next fixes. That is, commits that people come up with over the
course of a day to fix issues found in the latest linux-next trees.

It's a fact that many people rely on linux-next for everyday work, so
whenever things break in linux-next a lot of people end up chasing the
same bugs and posting the same patches (or not posting them for that
matter).

A lot of developer time is wasted that way, so I originally proposed
that we could set up a separate linux-next-fixes tree where we collect
patches of interest. I volunteer to do that, since, well, I'm doing it
anyway as part of my daily routine. Timezone-wise it also fits pretty
well, since I usually start my day sometime around when you publish
linux-next.

If we can establish a canonical location where such fixes are
accumulated, people could fetch those at the same time they fetch the
linux-next tree and automatically get fixes.

One idea was to carry those fixes within the linux-next tree, within
separate tags (next-YYYYMMDD-fixes). If you don't feel comfortable with
that I suppose we could also set up a separate repository. It that case
I think it would still make sense to run it as part of the "Linux Next
Group" on kernel.org.

What do you think? If it's something you'd be okay with I can contact
the administrators to have me added to the linux-next group.

Thierry

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             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-01  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-01  9:36 Thierry Reding [this message]
2013-11-01 15:09 ` linux-next fixes Randy Dunlap
2013-11-04  8:34   ` Thierry Reding
     [not found]   ` <CAOesGMivU0rz+HgA7HjJ4trdJ5QMu2mbHSpLJQ0PvGOtQR6iNQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-04  8:38     ` Thierry Reding

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