Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests
From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Thu Oct 24 2024 - 22:07:50 EST
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 09:17:28PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Remember, this is talking about fixes after -rc1 not for things heading
> to the merge window. I find linux-next extremely useful for that work.
> But for fixes, what benefit is it to push to linux-next before sending
> to Linus a fix that adds a missing mutex_unlock() in the error path?
Yeah, sorry I did not get that context, in that case think the value is
more immediate than a round trip through 0-day given linus tree has
more immediacy for testing and value for fixes.
Luis