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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6•in-berlin.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k•org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can you add the staging tree to -next?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:36:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49230B3A.2000509@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081114173258.GC22980@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote on November 14:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:42:48AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Apart from the patches you receive against -next, is there any other
>> advantage, giving staging is disabled?
> 
> That is a huge advantage, don't discount it.  My staging tree has over
> 150 patches in it right now, and is quite diverged from what is in
> Linus's tree.  I have been getting the same patches sent over and over
> to fix the same thing that is already resolved in my tree, as the
> developers are working against -next thinking that they were working
> with the latest development tree.

These people are missing that -next is not a development tree.
(Unless final integration tests count still as development.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- =-== =--=-
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 23:56 Can you add the staging tree to -next? Greg KH
2008-11-13 23:44 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-14  0:01   ` Greg KH
2008-11-14  0:13     ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14  0:22       ` Greg KH
2008-11-14  0:25         ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14  7:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-11-14  7:50   ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-14 14:16     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-11-14 17:32   ` Greg KH
2008-11-14 22:28     ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 23:06       ` Greg KH
2008-11-14 23:43         ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-18 18:36     ` Stefan Richter [this message]

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