Re: [PANIC] ohci1394 & copy large files

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 09:17, Ben Collins wrote:

> Because the fix was pretty extensive and needed testing. It was
> potentially more broken that the problem it was fixing. Sending untested
> patches to Linus is far worse than batching a few up and pushing to him.

Ok, makes sense, it wasn't just a 1-liner quick fix then ;)

Still, from my experience, _very few_ people actually test things in
trees like ieee1394, fbdev, etc...  Even my tree isn't what it used
to be for pmacs now that I'm fully in sync upstream.

Even -mm lately haven't been as tested as it used to be (possibly
because of upstream getting better). I find it's quite ok to send
a fix that needs a bit more testing to a Linus -rc1 (but not later),

Ben.



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