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SubjectRe: [git pull] drm for 4.3
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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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