Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:56:22 +1000 | Subject | Re: [git pull] drm for 4.3 | From | Dave Airlie <> |
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On 8 September 2015 at 14:04, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 13:01:21 +1000 Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is this to be a regular thing? because I know I'd prefer to merge >> fixes than wait for -rc1 to be an accurate copy of linux-next. > > It happens when I can (almost) keep up with Linus' merge rate (often I > can't). It is not an issue and I agree that fixes should just be done > as/when needed. That is why I say "not judging, just noting" - I > generally don't have the time to figure out if each and every unseen > commit is a fix or new feature and/or if it has some possibility of > interacting with some other tree in a way that a few days in linux-next > may have flushed out. > > So, if you are happy with what you are doing (and you don't irritate > Linus), then I am happy (as long as you don't cause unnecessary extra > conflicts in linux-next :-)). >
Maybe you could heuristic it by ratio new commits or new lines vs the total size of the -next tree.
i.e. 59 commits in a 5000 commit tree is likely not that bad, 59 commits in a 20 commit tree would be bad.
Though not sure how you'd tune it!
Dave.
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