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SubjectRe: quality control
 On Mon, Feb 06, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> writes:
> >
> > It's a GIT version of an RC patch for grief's sake! You don't
> > seriously expect people to quadruple-check every trivial patch that
> > goes into Linus GIT tree before sending it, do you?
>
> No quadruple check, but every patch going to Linus should get at least
> some basic testing and it's definitely suppose to compile at least
> in one .config combination.

Right. We have now git-bisect, and it helped me to nail down a few bugs.
Just now I track down some scsi or whatever breakage in -rc1. And guess
what, not a single compile error so far, with a full featured config!
So you guys better send tested patches, via akpm, to keep Linus tree in
a reasonable shape.

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