[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] [nomination] Move Fast and Oops Things

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Dan Carpenter
<dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:31:44AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> I agree that something like this is prickly once it gets entangled
>> with ABI concerns.  But, I disagree with the speed argument... unless
>> you believe -staging has not increased the velocity of kernel
>> development?
>
> Staging is good because it brings more developers, but in many cases it
> is a slow down.  Merged codes has stricter rules where you have to write
> reviewable patches.  If there is a bug early in a patch series then you
> can't just fix it in a later patch, you need to redo the whole series.

In theory...

These days many fixes end up as separate commits in various subsystem
trees, due to "no rebase" rules and other regulations.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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