On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 02:06:46PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> I have to ask...
>
> Wouldn't more people testing -next result in more pressure to fix
> linux-next problems quickly?
I believe I brought up pretty much exactly this at this year's maintainer
summit.
>From the discussion it turned out the many people believe that this
investing into this is probably not worth it, as it will require much more
continous, never-ending effort (for which there are probably not enough
resources) than just dealing with the fallout once during the -rc1+ phase.
Thank you for the response and the information!
But why won't this same issues apply just as forcefully to a new
linus-next tree?
Full disclosure: Testing and tracking down bugs in -next can be a bit of
a hassle, to be sure, but I expect to continue to do so. For one thing,
dealing with -next is way easier than testing patches on the various
mailing lists.