Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Mar 2021 13:54:37 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag |
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> But I also can heartily just recommend that people who already _did_ > start on rc1 to rebase their current - hopefully not extensive - work.
Thanks for the heads-up - we just rebased about 50 commits in -tip to avoid this bug: our normal workflow is to jump on -rc1 once it's released and integrate pending development work that we normally don't apply during the merge window. So our special pattern of pent-up merging did bite us a little bit - but nothing particularly serious.
> I know I've ranted about rebasing for years, and it has huge > downsides, but the operation does exist because sometimes you just > need to fix serious errors. So _mindful_ rebasing, understanding why > it shouldn't be a normal thing, but doing it when something > exceptional happens - that's not wrong.
Yeah, and in this case not sending scarce-resource testers & bisecters into the middle of a file corruption bug is definitely the right thing to do.
Maybe -next could double check that none of the maintainer trees have an -rc1 base? Your note here was kind of low-key. :-)
And maybe there's some bisection helper annotation or hook-script that can be embedded in the kernel Git tree to avoid or at least warn about particularly nasty bugs?
Thanks,
Ingo
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