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    SubjectRe: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))
    On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:23:08 +0000
    Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

    > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:48:13PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
    > > I have tried, and successfully done this many times in the past. The
    > > kobject change was one example: add a new function, migrate all users of
    > > a direct pointer over to that function, after that work is all done and
    > > in, change the structure and do the needed work afterward. All is
    > > bisectable completly, with no big "flag day" needed.
    >
    > Incorrect - because this all happened far too quickly. This is one of
    > the reasons that I ended up having to redo various parts of the ARM tree
    > because stuff broke - set_kset_name() completely vanished introducing
    > compile errors, and iirc some merge issues as well.
    >
    > I had patches introducing new system objects which use that, and
    > modifications extremely close to other uses in the PXA code.
    >
    > The end result (through rebuilding the affected parts of my git tree, and
    > asking people for replacement patches) was something that is bisectable -
    > but had I tried to merge stuff as is, it would've been an utter mess, and
    > _was_ unbuildable.
    >

    I wonder why I didn't see any of this - I build arm allmodconfig at least
    once a week, usually more frequently.

    So either the offending patches weren't in my pile or arm allmodconfig is
    worse than I thought :(

    It really is in arch maintainers' best interest to keep their allmodconfig
    in good shape, for this reason. arm's _isn't_ in good shape: the compile
    fails for several long-standing reasons (eg: no hope of building DRM) and I
    don't think the coverage is very broad either.



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