Re: Can you add the staging tree to -next?

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 13:37:18 EST


Greg KH wrote on November 14:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:42:48AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Apart from the patches you receive against -next, is there any other
>> advantage, giving staging is disabled?
>
> That is a huge advantage, don't discount it. My staging tree has over
> 150 patches in it right now, and is quite diverged from what is in
> Linus's tree. I have been getting the same patches sent over and over
> to fix the same thing that is already resolved in my tree, as the
> developers are working against -next thinking that they were working
> with the latest development tree.

These people are missing that -next is not a development tree.
(Unless final integration tests count still as development.)
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