linux-next: origin tree build failure

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jun 13 00:19:58 EST 2009


> Uhm, the bug you are making a big deal of would have been found and 
> fixed by Paulus a few hours after any such mail - and probably by me 
> too as i do daily cross builds to Power.
> 
> So yes, we had a bug, but any extra linux-next hoops would not have 
> prevented it: i could still have messed up by getting lured by that 
> nice piece of Power7 hardware enablement patch on the last day ;-)
> 
> So the bug was my fault for being too fast-and-loose with that 
> particular patch, creating a ~5-commits-hop build breakage bisection 
> window on Power.
> 
> Now that i'm sufficiently chastised, can we now move on please? :)

Sure we can :-) My point is, get a break before you merge upstream :-)

Cheers,
Ben.




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